Hi all, I finally installed vc8 beta. It seems that vc8-tools.jam has the path to the binary MSVC tools wrong: It is: VC80_ROOT ?= $(ProgramFiles:J=" ")"\\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Whidbey\\VC7" ; But I think it should be: VC80_ROOT ?= $(ProgramFiles:J=" ")"\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC" ; At least that's what's needed on my machine... As a side note, I got a lot of warnings: cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'GX' has been deprecated and will be re moved in a future release cl : Command line warning D9036 : use 'EHsc' instead of 'GX' Best, John -- John Torjo -- john@torjo.com Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal -- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all -- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/ -- v1.4 - save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls! + easily add validation rules (win32gui/examples/smart_dlg)