David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
It is probably not a problem at all, technically. See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html#variants.
On the other hand, I don't know what to do to suppress the error. And since Microsoft hasn't sent me the VS 2005 release, I can't test Boost against it :(
do you have MSDN subscription? If so, you may download it. You do not need whole ~3GB, much smaller Visual C++ 2005 Express is enough (but you will need to pull Platform SDK, though).
Dave, do you need help tracing the problem?
I guess so.
Apparently problem is wider and applies to other libraries as well. I just tried building whole boost 1.31.1 RC by hand on MSVC8: bjam.exe "-sTOOLS=vc-8_0" "-sBUILD=release debug <runtime-link>dynamic <threading>multi <debug-symbols>off" stage and no dll files were created. I checked bjam log, and found that linker fails with message: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___CxxFrameHandler3 It is possible that it's problem with my setup, or that toolset vc-8_0 is not compatible with Visual C++ 2005 Express. Now I'm trying to build boost 1.31.1 RC again, this time with -d2 option. B.