Hi Everyone, I've recently just got the courage to get the CVS source from sourceforge, and I had encountered numerous problems with building/installing it, and then actually using it -- in Windows after having working with boost for quite a while now in Linux. As the post suggests, I'm using MS Visual C++ 8.0 (the free one, which comes with the Express edition of the IDE) and here are two of the problems encountered while building: 1) Python is already installed in the system (C:\Python24) but the build system still complains about it -- tried defining PYTHON_ROOT to no avail and "--with-python-root=[]" but the flag is not recognized (and turns up an error using Boost.Jam v 2). 2) Tools not explicitly defined in documentation: I had to wade through errors and complaints from Boost.Jam to find out that I needed bison,flex,m4 among other stuff. I haven't seen any documentation requiring these tools, and it would be very much appreciated if they were conveniently expressed in documentation. (more a request/observation than anything) 3) Defaults for msvc 8.0 like directory paths, etc. had to be manually defined. Though this may be addressed with Boost.Build, I still don't have enough experience with it to actually propose a fix/workaround. The Platform SDK environment vars also had to be set, which which distributed apart from the MSVC 8.0 Express toolchain -- which might become a requirement in the future, but am too much of an MS noob to start figuring this out for now. When building, there are a lot of deprecated complaints, and even template warnings. This might have something to do with the changes from 7.1 to 8.0, though they are mostly warnings than anything else. I had encountered installation and usage issues that might be specific to MSVC 8.0, and I've summarized them below: - libs build alright, and are copied to the specified location. However, when a project built using the unit_testing_framework for example is about to link to the .lib, MSVC 8.0 looks for a file named "libboost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-gd-1_35.lib" but only "boost_unit_test_framework-vc-gd-1_35.lib" is available. - headers don't get copied fully when installed: I had to manually copy over a lot of the preprocessor library and the mpl library into the install directory. Any tips and pointers (and other information that you think might be helpful) will be most appreciated. I still have to figure out Boost.Jam to be able to contribute to the installation and usage problems outlined above, although I hope the above report helps. NOTE: I only uncommented "using msvc ; " in user-config.jam -- please let me know if there are other things that might be helpful to make sense of the stuff posted above. Have a great day everyone, and hope this helps! -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com