Markus Werle
Hi!
I am out of ideas here, but somebody probably fell into that trap before. Since the error message points to unrelated code, I hope to get some idea via Boost:
boost_1_33_1\boost/multi_index/ordered_index.hpp(445) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ',' before '.'
Since I had VC8 messing things up before I bet it is the #include order again, but I could not find the offending header yet.
Markus
Hello Markus, My hunch is that this is indeed just a compiler quirk, specially since you've reported that the problem is not reproducible in GCC. You can try the following: 1. What Boost version are you using? Line 445 of ordered_index.hpp in Boost 1.33.1 does not even contain a '.' character. You might try downloading a snapshot of RC_1_34_0: http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/snapshot/boost-RC_1_34_0.tar.bz2 and see if VC 8.0 is happier with that. 2. Play with precompiled header options, increase the memory available to the compiler with /Zm, switch from /ZI to a less demanding type of debugging info, disable /Gm. All these options have been proved to be beneficial in VC 6.0, maybe you're lucky in VC 8.0 as well. 3. Try using type hiding to reduce the lengths of symbols produced by multi_index containers definitions: http://boost.org/libs/multi_index/doc/compiler_specifics.html#type_hiding 4. Tag usage increase the level of stress the compiler is put under. Try elminating them in the definition of value_storage_t and acess indices by ordinal instead. You can retain some of the mnemonic nature of tags with enums: enum{ as_int=1, as_string=2 }; Please keep me informed of your progress with this. Good luck, Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo