Re: [Boost-build] a little help...

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] a little help...
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (v_gevorg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-06 06:12:15

The_Perl_guru wrote:
> i'm new to c++ and this is my first time with boost...
> i'd like some help installing please, i've downloaded and built bjam, now
> what?
> i would like to install the asio library with minGW how could i do it?
> if you could just point me in the right direction that would be appreciated.

You don't need to build boost in order to use asio since asio is header-only.
Just unpack the boost archive somewhere and add the directory to the compiler's header search path.

You might  as well find this link useful:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html

HTH,
Gevorg