Boost logo

Boost-Build :

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] a little help...
From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-06 06:27:44


Gevorg Voskanyan wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, asio uses Boost.System, which is not header-only.

Regards,
Johan


Boost-Build list run by bdawes at acm.org, david.abrahams at rcn.com, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk