Developer: Boost CPP libraries

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Contents 1 What is it? 2 Installing 2.1 Linux 2.2 Windows 2.2.1 Static vs Dynamic Libraries 2.2.2 Visual Studio 2005 2.2.3 Visual Studio 6

What is it?

A very useful C++ standards package. www.boost.org

Installing

Linux

All modern distributions have a Boost-libraries package

Windows

Static vs Dynamic Libraries

see http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Build_Install :

Download boost-jam (ex: uncompress to C:\boost-jam\boost-jam-3.1.13-1-ntx86)

Download boost source (ex: uncompress to C:\boost-src\boost_1_33_1)

By default, installation is C:\Boost\include and C:\Boost\lib

• *.dll Dynamic library version.

• *.lib Import library for the dll.

• lib*.lib Static library version.

open windows shell (not a cygwin shell): Start->Run... "cmd.exe"

from top-level source directory (dir containing "boost-build.jam" file), run:

C:\boost-jam\boost-jam-3.1.13-1-ntx86\bjam.exe "-sTOOLS=xxxxx" install

Where "xxxxx" is vc-8_0 for Studio 2005 or msvc for VC6.

Note, this takes a *very* long time.

Visual Studio 2005

see http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v1/vc-8_0-tools.html regarding disabling "deprecated" warnings when using the boost libraries.

Visual Studio 6

Problems: serialization and program options do not build