Re: Preliminary 0.9.0 tarballs - VC++ 2008 Express

> On Dec 4, 2007 11:00 AM, Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...> wrote:
> > I don't think we'll add VC9 support to this release---it
> > wouldn't be testable anyway until Boost supports it too.
>
> Boost might be not a real issue: the binaries for VC9 are not
> downloadable, but if you use the new bjam 3.1.16
> (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941)
> it compile all boost 1.34.1 libraries despite endless reports about
> "unsupported compiler".
> I compiled them using the Visual Studio 2008 command line prompt and
> the command:
> bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 install
> as I did for all previous MSVC compilers
>
> (BTW: downloading and installing Visual Studio 2008 Offline
> Installation is a surprisingly pleasant experience: no glitch, SDK
> included, etc.)
>
> So I went ahead and I've just committed project/solution files for
> VC9, and few tweaks to the autolink.hpp files and everything does
> compile but tracing.cpp as reported by Georgy:
>
> \ql/utilities/tracing.hpp(66) : error C2990: 'QuantLib::Singleton' :
> non-class template has already been declared as a class template
> .\ql/patterns/singleton.hpp(53) : see declaration of 'QuantLib::Singleton'
>
> I don't know how to solve this error, but if someone has a patch we
> might easily add VC9 support
>
> ciao -- Nando
>