Yes, the method works. I have just install 1.42.0 on Visual Studio 2008 professional following instructions of the link:<br><a href="http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/414" target="_blank">http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/414</a><br> <br>Cheers !<br>Robert<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Steven Watanabe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:watanabesj@gmail.com">watanabesj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> AMDG<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> Boost lzw wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I came across the following link on how to build Boost With Visual Studio:<br> <a href="http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/414" target="_blank">http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/414</a><br> <br> I have VS2008 professional on Windows XP professional with boost 1.39.0<br> installed, really �wanted to replace it with 1.42.0. My hard disk now has<br> about 16 GB left. �Is there anybody who followed the above link to have<br> successfully installed boost 1.42.0 in an environment like mine (i.e., is<br> the method correct)? What should I do with the /boost directory of about<br> 1.8GB when boost 1.39.0 was built, simply deleting it?<br> �<br> </blockquote> <br></div></div> Assuming that you don't need it any more, you can just delete it.<br> You can also delete the bin.v2 directory.<br> <br> In Christ,<br><font color="#888888"> Steven Watanabe</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Boost-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Boost-users@lists.boost.org" target="_blank">Boost-users@lists.boost.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users" target="_blank">http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>