Hi! IMHO the "getting started" guide is missing some useful information that once used to be inside: I have absolutely no idea which version number to be put to the compiler for vc8. I remember having seen such a list of possible options, but I cannot find it anymore. So I tried the following command line with VS 2005 SP1: bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 stage Seems to run fine, but I am missing most of the static libs, e.g. libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-s-1_35.lib is missing. stage/lib contains the files listed below. Any idea what might have gone wrong? Markus content of stage/lib: boost_date_time-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_date_time-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_date_time-vc80-mt.lib boost_filesystem-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_filesystem-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_filesystem-vc80-mt.lib boost_graph-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_graph-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_graph-vc80-mt.lib boost_iostreams-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_iostreams-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_iostreams-vc80-mt.lib boost_prg_exec_monitor-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_prg_exec_monitor-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_prg_exec_monitor-vc80-mt.lib boost_program_options-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_program_options-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_program_options-vc80-mt.lib boost_python-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_python-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_python-vc80-mt.lib boost_regex-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_regex-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_regex-vc80-mt.lib boost_serialization-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_serialization-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_serialization-vc80-mt.lib boost_signals-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_signals-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_signals-vc80-mt.lib boost_system-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_system-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_system-vc80-mt.lib boost_thread-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_thread-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_thread-vc80-mt.lib boost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt.lib boost_wave-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_wave-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_wave-vc80-mt.lib boost_wserialization-vc80-mt-1_35.dll boost_wserialization-vc80-mt-1_35.lib boost_wserialization-vc80-mt.lib libboost_test_exec_monitor-vc80-mt-1_35.lib libboost_test_exec_monitor-vc80-mt.lib