Compile-time assertion?

Yes. You can do this with template specializations on type bool, like this:

// empty default template
template <bool b>
struct StaticAssert {};

// template specialized on true
template <>
struct StaticAssert<true>
{
    static void assert() {}
};

int f()
{
    StaticAssert<1==1>::assert();   // compiles fine, assert() member found
    StaticAssert<1==2>::assert();   // compile failure, no assert() member for StaticAssert<false>
}

Code is basically from memory, may need some tweaks.