Re: [Boost-users] Visual C++ 2005 (8.0) support

From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-31 14:26:20

On 10/31/05, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> "Ovanes Markarian" <om_boost_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > did someone test boost 1.33 with Visual C++ 2005(8.0)?
>
> With a pre-release of vc8, yes.  VC++ 8.0 hasn't been released yet,
> AFAIK.

The RTM was put on MSDN a couple days ago.

> Results:
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/summary.html
>
> > I am wondering how I can compile the library using jam. Should I use
> > VC++ 7.1 option?
>
> Use -sTOOLS=vc-8_0
>
> > Another question. I derived an iterator from the iterator_facade
> > template. As I have recently found out VC++ 8.0 did not support
> > friend template classes, e.g.
> >
> >
> > template<class ....>
> > class my_type
> > {
> >   template <class> friend class my_type;
> >   ...
> >
> > };
> >
> > This will not work in VC++ 8.0. Did you know about this issue?
>
> All but one of the iterator library tests worked with vc8 in the
> 1.33.0 release:
>
>   http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/iterator.html
>
> so that in particular shouldn't have been a problem.  That one failure
> has since been fixed:
>
>   http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/developer/iterator.html
>
> > Should this be filed as a bug at MS?
>
> If you want it fixed, yes :)
>
>
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