diff --git a/source/lib/sysdep/os/win/wdll_delay_load.cpp b/source/lib/sysdep/os/win/wdll_delay_load.cpp
index cb85e734c3..272cbc3487 100644
--- a/source/lib/sysdep/os/win/wdll_delay_load.cpp
+++ b/source/lib/sysdep/os/win/wdll_delay_load.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2010 Wildfire Games
+/* Copyright (c) 2013 Wildfire Games
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ WINIT_REGISTER_LATE_SHUTDOWN2(wdll_Shutdown);	// last - DLLs are unloaded here
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // delay loading (modified from VC7 DelayHlp.cpp and DelayImp.h)
 
-
+#if MSC_VERSION && MSC_VERSION >= 1700
+// FACILITY_VISUALCPP is already defined in winerror.h in VC2012
+# undef FACILITY_VISUALCPP
+#endif
 #define FACILITY_VISUALCPP  ((LONG)0x6d)
 #define VcppException(sev,status)  ((sev) | (FACILITY_VISUALCPP<<16) | status)
 
diff --git a/source/simulation2/system/ComponentManagerSerialization.cpp b/source/simulation2/system/ComponentManagerSerialization.cpp
index abfd08c489..d514df2925 100644
--- a/source/simulation2/system/ComponentManagerSerialization.cpp
+++ b/source/simulation2/system/ComponentManagerSerialization.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2010 Wildfire Games.
+/* Copyright (C) 2013 Wildfire Games.
  * This file is part of 0 A.D.
  *
  * 0 A.D. is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -17,13 +17,6 @@
 
 #include "precompiled.h"
 
-// Ugly hack: Boost disables rand48's operator<< in VC2005 and older, but we'd quite
-// like to use it, so remove the macro that disables it (before we include
-// linear_congruential.hpp)
-#if MSC_VERSION && MSC_VERSION <= 1400
-#undef BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS
-#endif
-
 #include "ComponentManager.h"
 #include "IComponent.h"
 #include "ParamNode.h"