Re: [jamboost] Re: visual studio boost installation

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-06 10:47:29

>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)

I just took a quick look at QuantLib and *you already have everything you 
need*.

Specifically: QuantLib uses a couple of Boost headers (shared_ptr and 
config), and doesn't look to need the source building at all, *unless* you 
want to build the QuantLib test suite which relies upon Boost.Test. 
However, not only does Boost.Test work perfectly well with VC6, but based on 
your previous messages, you already have built it!

Yes I know you got errors from the serialisation lib, but since QuantLib 
doesn't use that, you can just ignore those for now, and get on with using 
what you do have.

Happy yet? :-)

John.