I’m currently in the process of moving all our source over to Visual Studio 2008. Most of our 3rd party libraries compiled right out of the box. However, the excellent Boost library was not so simple.
Boost has quite a complex build process that automatically discovers your compiler and builds the library with almost no user interaction. Unfortunately the current release of Boost (1.34) does not recognize VS2008 and the build process will only pick up older versions of the compiler. Fortunately once you know what files need to change it’s not too difficult to add a new compiler to the build process.
For anyone else who’s trying to compile Boost with VS2008 the link below contains the files I updated to fix our build process.