Re: How do I use Boost with the Visual Studio IDE?

From: Ken Fogel (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-06 13:25:54

Thanks, the key was learning the right place to put the library and your
info allowed me to locate it on my compiler. In .NET 2003 it is in
Projects->Properties->Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies and in my case
the path was:

D:\boost_1_30_0\libs\thread\build\bin\boost_thread.dll\vc7\debug\runtime-lin
k-dynamic\threading-multi\boost_thread.lib

Ken

"Mark Sizer" <yg-boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:3EDE8C40.4080500_at_15grant.com...
> I had no problem with this.
>
> I added the boost directory structure to my Visual Studio paths
> (Tools/Options/Directories/Include & Library) and added boost_thread.lib
> to the project settings (Project/Settings/Link/Input).
>
> Since I'm not debugging boost, I use only the release libraries (the
> VERY long path of which is:
>
D:\boost\boost_1_30_0\libs\thread\build\bin\boost_thread.dll\msvc\release\ru
ntime-link-dynamic\threading-multi
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> I don't see any reason you couldn't put the whole mess in the project
> settings, but my habit is to use the VisualStudio paths (it's not a good
> habit, it makes rolling back the development environment to build
> previous versions really hard - the paths are in the registry, not the
> project which is in CVS).
>
> Good luck,
>   - Mark
>
> Ken Fogel wrote:
>
> > I can get the threads examples to compile and link with bjam but I am
unable
> > to get it to work from within the Visual Studio IDE (versions 6 or 7.1).
> > Does anyone have a basic project structure that could be used in the IDE
for
> > threads? I am writing console applications rather than GUI apps.
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