How to use Boost in Visual Studio 2010

Question

What is a good step by step explanation on how to use the Boost library in an empty project in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

Download boost from: http://www.boost.org/users/download/ e.g. by svn

• Windows -> tortoise (the simplest way)

After that : cmd -> go to boost directory ("D:\boostTrunk" - where You checkout or download and extract package): command : bootstrap

we created bjam.exe in ("D:\boostTrunk") After that : command : bjam toolset=msvc-10.0 variant=debug,release threading=multi link=static (It will take some time ~20min.)

After that: Open Visual studio 2010 -> create empty project -> go to project properties -> set:

Paste this code and check if it is working?

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

struct Hello 
{
    Hello(){ 
        cout << "Hello constructor" << endl;
    }

    ~Hello(){
        cout << "Hello destructor" << endl;
        cin.get();
    }
};


int main(int argc, char**argv)
{
    //Boost regex, compiled library
    boost::regex regex("^(Hello|Bye) Boost$");
    boost::cmatch helloMatches;
    boost::regex_search("Hello Boost", helloMatches, regex);
    cout << "The word between () is: " << helloMatches[1] << endl;

    //Boost shared pointer, header only library
    boost::shared_ptr sharedHello(new Hello);

    return 0;
}

Resources : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AmwIwedTCM