I have never tried to build bjam and run it so I am not sure what may be happening in your case. You can download pre-built bjam for Win32 from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586 <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941
&package_id=72941).
On the other hand, putting bjam.exe on C:\Windows\system32 does not seem like a good idea to me. Put bjam.exe where boost is (C:\temp\boost_1_32_0 for you). Before running bjam you need to run vsvars32.bat which comes with Visual C++ 7 installation. You will find it under Common7/Tools under your "Visual Studio .NET 2003" folder. For example, for me it is at (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\ vsvars32.bat). This bat file sets the environment variables necessary to use the Visual C++ compiler from the command line which is what bjam will try to do. Then go to your C:\temp\boot_1_32_0 and run "bjam.exe "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" install" Hope this helps, -delfin _____ From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of TBoafo@aol.com Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:39 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Re: building and installing boost I copied the boost installation zip file for windows the boost_1_32 zip file to c:\temp. The zip file was then expanded to c:\temp\boost_1_32_0. If one follows the instructions for building bjam from c:\temp\boost_1_32\tools\build\jam_src\ a bjam.exe gets created in c:\temp\boost_1_32_0\tools\build\jam_src\ bin.ntx86. I dont have any boost set up in the environment path. I have copied the bjam.exe to c:\windows\system32. I then type the boost install command below as per boost building instructions for visual c++ 7 as per below. C:\temp\boost_1_32_0>bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" install Regards Theo