Re: [Boost-users] Compiling with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-22 18:00:52

Hi Keith, have you downloaded the platform sdk?  It is needed by a lot of boost.

On 11/22/05, Keith Weintraub <Keith_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Folks,
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>    I am having trouble compiling and building boost with Visual C++ 2005
> Express Edition. It gets a lot of the job done with the command (under
> cygwin):
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> bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-8_0" "-svc80_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8\VC"
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> That directory is where my VC++ is installed. In addition the bjam script
> (which I treat as a black box) could not find the vsvers32.bat script which
> I ran by hand. I had to do that to get anything to work.
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> The last run that I did ignored about 126 "targets" and had errors in 82
> "targets". Some (maybe all, since they all scrolled by so quickly) said that
> windows.h could not be found.
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> Can anyone help me with this?
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> Thanks for your time,
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> KW
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