[Boost-users] Can I copy/paste Boost source code and compile directly into my application?

Subject: [Boost-users] Can I copy/paste Boost source code and compile directly into my application?
From: Fred (anon24u_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-28 15:56:25

Dear Boosters,

I would like to use the Boost/regex library in my application,
but I don't want my users to have to install Boost.
My preference would be to copy a minimal set
of Boost .hpp and .cpp files into a sub-directory 
of my application and then
compile and link the boost/regex stuff
in the same way as the rest of my
application.

Note that the regex library is not a header-only library.

So, is there a reasonably straight-forward
and well-accepted procedure to do this?

Apologies if this topic has already been covered,
but I can't seem to get a hit.

Many thanks,

Fred