Why does Visual Studio 2010 throw this error with Boost 1.42.0?

Question

I'm trying to recompile application, that compiles fine with warning level 4 in visual studio 2005 and visual studio 2008. Since the errors (look below) are coming from std:tr1, I'm thinking there's some conflict, but not sure how to fix. My first thought was to remove all references to boost, such as but then I get an error that it can't find format method. So here's one of the errors: (not sure what it means) Any ideas, suggestions, solutions? Thanks!

EDIT: Right at the beginning I see a message: Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results

EDIT2: Piece of code that I think causes this error: (changed to protect the innocent) EDIT3: I updated the error message, ie added more..however I get many more error messages such as this one..so there's a bigger problem/issue.

 !m_someMap.insert( std::make_pair( "somestring", SomeClass::isTrue ) ).second
....
.....
 inline bool isTrue ( const IDog & dog ) { return s.IsDogTrue(); }



1>c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\type_traits(197): error C2752: 'std::tr1::_Remove_reference<_Ty>' : more than one partial specialization matches the template argument list
1>          with
1>          [
1>              _Ty=bool (__cdecl &)(const IDog &)
1>          ]
1>          c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\xtr1common(356): could be 'std::tr1::_Remove_reference<_Ty&&>'
1>          c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\xtr1common(350): or       'std::tr1::_Remove_reference<_Ty&>'
1>          c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\type_traits(962) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::tr1::remove_reference<_Ty>' being compiled
1>          with
1>          [
1>              _Ty=bool (__cdecl &)(const IDog &)
1>          ]
1>          c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\utility(26) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::tr1::decay<_Ty>' being compiled
1>          with
1>          [
1>              _Ty=bool (__cdecl &)(const IDog &)
1>          ]
1>         C:\(PATH)\...(915) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::tr1::_Unrefwrap<_Type>' being compiled
1>          with
1>          [
1>              _Type=bool (__cdecl &)(const IDog &)
1>          ]
1>c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\type_traits(965): error C2528: 'abstract declarator' : pointer to reference is illegal
1>c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\type_traits(349): error C2528: 'type' : pointer to reference is illegal
1>          c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\type_traits(967) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::tr1::add_pointer<_Ty>' being compiled
1>          with
1>          [
1>              _Ty=bool (__cdecl &)(const IDog &)
1>          ]
1>c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\type_traits(197): error C2752: 'std::tr1::_Remove_reference<_Ty>' : more than one partial specialization matches the template argument list
1>          with
1>          [
1>              _Ty=bool (__cdecl &)(const char *,int,const char *,std::string &)
1>          ]

Answer 1

the problem is with visual studio 2010, or I should say that with additional templates that were added to visual studio 2010 tr1, so, std::make_pair, doesn't always work. changed to pair<> and all errors magically went away.

so, if you have template problems in VC2010 and using std:make_pair, change it to pair<> and specify template parameters.

Answer 2

It sounds like Visual Studio might be doing something you don't know. I think you can use the Microsoft compiler with the code::blocks IDE. You can try each compiler (VS 2005/2008/2010). Also, try a diff from your source code repository to be sure Microsoft didn't "prettify" your code.

Note: You don't have to use Code::Blocks after you figure out the problem. It just might be a good tool for this particular issue.