id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
4402	Compiling in native Windows, with MSVC8 (2005) Express	Geoff McLane <ubuntu@…>	Vladimir Prus	"Not really a bug... Just some advice for others...

It took me quite a few HOURS to track down a strange 
batch file abort, with a long message something like :-

\Utilities\Bin\x86"";C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX;
C:\Program Files\Common  Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;
... etc ... ending with 'was unexpected at this time.'

It turned out to be a SIMPLE problem, but not exactly sure why
the batch file interpreter got tripped on a PATH ')', while in 
a batch bracketed (...) statement ...

The problem was my environment PATH string contained
brackets, ( ), for the DirectX SDK, like :-
PATH=C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin;
""C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (October 2006)\Utilities\Bin\x86"";
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
...

Once I renamed this DirectX SDK directory to _NOT_ have brackets,
and adjusted the Control Panel -> [Environment Variables]..., and
MSVC8 Options... -> VC++ Directories, the 'bjam' batch build system
worked like a charm with MSVC8... Thanks...

Maybe a note like - make sure your PATH does _NOT_ contain
brackets! () - could be added in the 'bootstrap.bat', or the 
'tools\jam\src\build.bat', for others who run across this problem.

Or be added to the documentation somewhere concerning bjam
building in windows... I searched, but could not find anything
similar...

Hope this helps, and thanks for a great set of headers, and now
static libraries ;=))

Regards,

Geoff.

Some Ref. Info.
OS: Windows XP SP3 32-bits Box: Dell Dimension DXP061
CPU: Intel Core2 6400 @ 2.13GHz
MSVC: Visual Studio 2005 (MSVC8), .NET 2.0.50727
SVN: Boost trunk, updated to 2010-07-02
Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12)
Boost.Jam 03.1.19
Boost_Version 104400, LIB_VERSION ""1_44""

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