Re: visual studio boost installation

From: savapedro (savapedro_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-06 07:23:52

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], David Abrahams <dave_at_b...> wrote:

> To be more explicit, Boost is a library collection, not a single 
> library. Many of the Boost library developers do support MSVC6, 
but a 
> few of us have grown weary of the herculean effort it takes to find 
> workarounds for bugs in compilers that are several versions out-of-
date, 
> and have begun to decide that those compilers won't be supported in 
the 
> future. One or two people have already started to drop support for 
vc6 
> in the current release.
> 
> The fact that you see some errors for the serialization library 
doesn't 
> mean anything about the other libraries in Boost. Most of the 
Boost 
> libraries are completely in headers, so you won't see any build 
steps at 
> all. Some others, like the regex library and Boost.Python, have 
built 
> library objects, and will succeed to build even with vc6.
> 
> I hope this clears things up for you.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> http://www.boost-consulting.com

Well, thanks anyway.

I was trying to build the QuantLib financial library, which is also 
free software and uses Boost libraries. Hence I had to compile and 
install Boost first.

I guess I´ll have to find other sources, or else maybe finding a way 
of installing Boost without the offended libs (e.g. spirit)

:(