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

From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 07:16:10

Dave,

thanks for your answer.

As I can see from MS Website Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 have been released last week
for download.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/

With Kind Regards,

Ovanes Markarian

On Mon, October 31, 2005 17:48, David Abrahams said:
> "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.
>
> 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 :)
>
>
> --
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> www.boost-consulting.com
>
>
>