Re: [Boost-users] MS VC2005 + Boost Setup

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-03 10:47:43

Heiko Günther <mail_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I have some trouble to setup the Boost library with VC++ 2005. I am
> rather new to the library, so I could need some help.
> I have downloaded Version 1.33 and extracted the files to location A
> ("d:\programs\boost" in my case). Visual Studio is located in
> location B ("d:\programs\VS"). What is the best way to build the
> library files? I especially need the compiled library of the "signal"
> class.

in short, set VC80_ROOT=d:\programs\VS\VC and make sure you do *not* 
have MSVCDir set before invoking bjam. More details at 
http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v1/vc-8_0-tools.html

> Since I have no experience with this bjam tool any help would be
> appreciated.

I assume you already have bjam.exe

B.