Hi All,

I am a newbie in the Boost. I need to use boost's thread library with VS 2005 Professional (ver 8) and on windows XP-64 bit platform. I've spent around one week to find out how to install it properly. I am listing the sequence I did here:

1- download and run BoostPro 1.37.0 Installer

2- copy the bjam.exe to the boost directory

3- in the command line: bjam --toolset="msvc" address-model=64 python=2.5
variant=release,debug threading=multi link=shared,static --prefix=c: \opt install

also in the VS I set the path for the include and library. However, when I build a simple code to test the thread library it gives me several errors like these:

1>Source1.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: __cdecl boost::thread::~thread(void)" (??1thread@boost@@QEAA@XZ) referenced in function main

1>Source1.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: void __cdecl boost::thread::join(void)" (?join@thread@boost@@QEAAXXZ) referenced in function main

I guess the python is not set correctly, or maybe everything is wrong!

Could you please help me to install boost properly. I am really confused that how complicated a software could be!!

I appreciate any help or suggestion.

Thanks,

--Victor