Thanks, Igor. I finally fixed it. The issue is mentioned in the following link: http://www.blinnov.com/2010/06/04/microsoft-was-unexpected-at-this-time/en/ In my case, the offender is that the value of my "System Variable->%PATH%" was set to: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (October 2006)\Utilities\Bin\x86"; (other paths omitted) I remove its openning and closing quotes, like so: C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (October 2006)\Utilities\Bin\x86; (other paths omitted) To share my experience, here is how I sucessfully build everything in boost 1_50_0 on Windows XP for MSVC2008: (0) download "boost_1_50_0.zip" from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/ and unzip it to (your preferred directory, in my case): C:\boost_1_50_0 (1) Launch Visual Studio 2008 Prompt Console Windows from: Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2008->Visual Studio Tools->Visual Studion Command Prompt (2) cd C:\boost_1_50_0 (3) bootstrap.bat This automatically generated b2.exe under C:\boost_1_50_0 directory (4) .\b2 I got the following, NICE reminding prompts at its end [of step (4) ]: The Boost C++ Libraries were successfully built! The following directory should be added to compiler include paths: C:/boost_1_50_0 The following directory should be added to linker library paths: C:\boost_1_50_0\stage\lib The building process is suprisingly simple and user-friendly. Thanks a lot for Boost library developers. Robert On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Igor R <boost.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
I resolved the issue and tried everthing suggested.
Here is the complete ouput error I got after runing bootstrap.bat or \v2\engine\build.bat: C:\boost_1_50_0\tools\build\v2\engine>build.bat
\Utilities\Bin\x86";c:\python23\.;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\syst
em32\wbem;c:\program files\ati technologies\ati.ace\;c:\program files\microsoft sql server\80\tools\binn\;c:\program files\cvsnt;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\MySQL\My SQL Server 5.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin;C:\WINDOW S\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SD K\VisualStudioIntegration\Tools\Sandcastle\ProductionTools\" was unexpected at this time.
Any idea?
It seems that you fixed it incorrectly. Ensure that PATH variable is correct. _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users