Re: [Boost-users] Building 1.33.1 with VC .NET 2003

From: Serge Skorokhodov (serge.skorokhodov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-28 02:46:47

Once I had problems building boost with vc-7_1 due to PATH environment
variable "overflow". After vcvars32.bat added up to the PATH some
directories in the beginning was truncated and lots of errors took
place. I guess that checking of environment the bjam works in may help.

> One thing that you might want to look into if you are on NT/2000/XP
> derivative is the way your environmental variables are set up. Open
> up Preferences from My Computer, go to Advanced, and then Environment
> Variables. Make sure you do not have anything in your user
> environment settings that might be masking system environment
> settings. If you have any LIB or INCLUDEs in your user environment
> variable, it can really mess you up in my experience. Merging those
> into the system variables and deleting them from user has helped fix
> some strange problems compiling for us.
>
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