Re: [Boost-users] Visual Studio 2008

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-22 04:38:30

John Dunn wrote:
> Now that VS 2008 has been released via MSDN, I'm attempting to see if
> our app compiles and works using it. Following the instructions here (
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/27205/focus=27207 )
> got boost compiled but the auto-link was still looking for vc80 in
> the library names. Adding the following to
> \boost\config\auto_link.hpp fixed the link issue
>
> #elif defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC == 1400)
>
>    // vc80:
> #  define BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET "vc80"
>
> #elif defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC >= 1500)
>
>    // vc90:
> #  define BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET "vc90"
>
> At this point everything appears to run. Is this the right way to
> start using boost in VS2008? At what point will boost 'properly'
> support VS2008? By properly I mean without me having to hack the
> boost src.

That fix is already in SVN Trunk, so I guess the answer to your question is 
"the next release".

John.