<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Michael Powell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwpowellnm@gmail.com">mwpowellnm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Andrew Holden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aholden@charteroaksystems.com" target="_blank">aholden@charteroaksystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div></div><div>On Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:53 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:<br> > I'm new to the Boost libraries and becoming reacquainted with C++<br> > after many years of using other languages. As recommended in<br> > section 5.1 of the "Getting Started on Windows", I visited the<br> > BoostPro website to find a Windows 7 installer for v1.48.0 to use<br> > with VS C++ 2010. In response to a followup message to BoostPro<br> > sales about the lack of an installer for the latest version, I was<br> > told:<br> ><br> > �"We don't have an installer at this time, and we are shortly<br> > �about to remove that section from our website. �The Boost build<br> > �instructions can be found here ..."<br> ><br> > Will there be no more Windows binary installers for the libraries<br> > or did I misunderstand?<br> <br> </div></div>I can't speak for binary installers, but I have found the libraries easy enough to compile myself. �For reference, I have attached the batch file I use to build the libraries. �Look through the options at the top of the batch file before copying it into your boost source and running it. �You will almost certainly want to change some of them for your system. �Please note it is not necessary to use a "visual studio command prompt". �An ordinary one will do just fine.<br> <br> As I have it configured, it will install the headers, 32-bit libraries and 64-bit libraries to C:\boost. �It's probably safest to not put your source distribution in that directory.<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br> I can also attest to the fact that the boost build process is not that terrible. I even went to the extent during one contractual stint of capturing the build process in a NAnt script which automatically cleaned the required dirs and performed the rebuild on an ad-hoc or as needed basis. Can be intimidating at first, but not once you've done it a couple of times. With this approach, I organized my boost download as a boost.zip file; note, sans the version number, for internal versioning purposes, and let the NAnt build process extract the files to a dir alongside the boost dir. This was all in the context of my Subversion project and CI environment as a whole.<br> <br>Anywho, this is my two cents for what it's worth.<br><br>God bless and Godspeed to you.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Oh yeah, one other note; the only thing is rebuilding takes time. So does installing, I expect, but as long as the boost.zip image is stable, or you aren't chasing versions that frequently, it shouldn't be too terrible. I clocked it once and it was fairly consistent with a full build in about 90 minutes or so, which we did every couple of days as a health build, and periodically upon Subversion changes. So first time out or so, go get a cup of coffee, or two, or three, maybe watch a short film (almost literally), as the instructions suggest. Make a provision for updating versions for your project and/or management leadership, and you'll be just fine.</div> <div>�</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> _______________________________________________<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></blockquote></div><br> </blockquote></div><br>