Re: failed to compile boost.system with msvc-7.1

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:56:52 -0700
Message-ID:
<rbjNj.467$4L1.365@newsfe07.lga>
BruceWho wrote:

I downloaded boost1.35.0 and built it with following command:

bjam --toolset=msvc-7.1 --variant=release --threading=multi --
link=shared --with-system stage

and it failed to compile, error message is:

E:\software\development\boost_1_35_0\boost_1_35_0>bjam --
toolset=msvc-7.1 --variant=release --threading=multi --link=shared --
with-system stage
...found 72 targets...
...updating 6 targets...
compile-c-c++
bin.v2\libs\system\build\msvc-7.1\release\threading-multi
\error_code.obj
error_code.cpp
D:\program\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\Include
\WinNT.h(477) : error C2467: illegal declaration of anonymous 'struct'


[SNIP]

That's a MSVC problem, one of the project settings, I haven't figured it out
yet. Same source code with different project settings will compile without
any warnings. Since it's microsoft speicfic try
microsoft.public.vc.language

hth

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tazmaster@rocketmail.com

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