Paul Bergen wrote:
I'm a veteran c++ coder and don't normally resort to such tactics, but I'm desperate. I've got a looming deadline to finish a big task and need to wrap up a minor utility that's less than 1% of the project but is consuming all my time because it uses boost for socket i/o, but I can't get the boost itself to work on windows 7 with vs2008ee, and it's blocking me from getting my core projects complete. The same code works fine on someone else's windows vista PC with vs2010, and under Linux. Given how popular boost is I can't believe it's simply that boost doesn't run on Windows 7. So, before I go out and buy another PC with Vista, I figured I'd offer a bit of cash for a Boost guru to VNC into my PC and look at it.
You should look to boostpro consulting. I'm sure they can fix you up in no time. Note that I have no commertial interest or connection (or even any real affection for) boostpro consulting. I just think that this would be a good investment of your companies money to get over this hump. This is an common problem which has nothing to do with C++ programming pe se but rather combining all the tools to get what we want. I admit these kinds of problems are just about the only things on earth that make me feel really dumb (other than MS Word and PowerPoint). Solving them is just a question of finding the hidden unintended side effect of something which would/should be entirely unrelated. I'm really sympathetic. Robert Ramey