I just did and I've added the following path to the Tools->Options->VC++ Directiories : C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_40
It still doesn't want to work. 

Rick

> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:52:02 +0100
> From: nick.wiggill@gmail.com
> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Hello Everyone
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> Did you look up the reasons for LNK1104 on MSDN?
>
> Nick
>
> 2009/12/13 Rick Eyre <lokomoko@hotmail.com>:
> > The file does exist. I'm using the default install path which is C:\Program
> > Files\boost\boost_1_40\. I followed the instructions which were to set the
> > VS project to look for additional headers in this path as well as using not
> > using precompiled headers. As to setting the path I didn't get any
> > instructions on this unless your referring to the additional file paths the
> > compiler should search in.
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:51:10 -0500
> >> From: chhenning@gmail.com
> >> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Hello Everyone
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Did you setup a path to that file? Also does the file exist?
> >>
> >> Christian
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Rick Eyre <lokomoko@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I have a problem with installing boost. I downloaded the installer 1.40
> >> > for
> >> > VC 2008 and followed all the instructions in the manual but I'm getting
> >> > the
> >> > error 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> >> > 'libboost_thread-vc90-mt-gd-1_40.lib'. This is from the header
> >> > #include <boost/thread/thread.hpp> in my code. Does anyone know what I
> >> > can
> >> > possible do to resolve this?
> >> > Thanks
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