Quoting Scott Meyers
Bernhard Merkle wrote:
IIRC, there is (and was never) no such thing as an installer. Most libs are header-only. About 9 libs or so have to be build (via jam). I did this successfully with VC++2005.
BoostPro Consulting offers an installer for Windows ( http://www.boostpro.com/products/free ) that tends to lag the official releases by some time. I've built Boost under Windows before, but sometimes I've had trouble (especially when I've wanted to build only parts of it), so I figured that this time maybe I'd wait for the installer and do things the lazy way :-)
Perhaps the Getting Started guide wasn't as good when you tried before as it is now? I've used the installer before and it works very nicely. However, to borrow a phrase, I did feel like I was being given a fish. Soon enough I wanted to use Boost.Python and Boost.MPI, which are not built by default, and I wished I'd been taught how to fish instead. The Getting Started page is pretty good at that these days. Just my 2c, Pete