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Exodus builds with boost 1.35 onwards in Linux but that is untested in Windows.
Exodus builds with boost 1.35 onwards in Linux but that is untested in Windows.
Below shows installation for Visual Studio 2008. Choose slightly different options for Visual Studio 2005.


# Click on http://www.boostpro.com/download/boost_1_38_setup.exe or click on http://www.boostpro.com/download then find and click Boost 1.38.0 Installer.
# Click on http://www.boostpro.com/download/boost_1_38_setup.exe or click on http://www.boostpro.com/download then find and click Boost 1.38.0 Installer.

Revision as of 15:15, 8 September 2010

Boost C++ Libraries 1.38.0

Exodus builds with boost 1.35 onwards in Linux but that is untested in Windows.

Below shows installation for Visual Studio 2008. Choose slightly different options for Visual Studio 2005.

  1. Click on http://www.boostpro.com/download/boost_1_38_setup.exe or click on http://www.boostpro.com/download then find and click Boost 1.38.0 Installer.
  2. Click Run and again.
  3. Agree to the licenses.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Compilers: Visual C++ 9.0 (Visual studio 2008).
  6. Variants: (1) Multithread (2) Multithread Debug

Boost3.png

  1. Click Next
  2. Now untick every box except:
    • Boost Header files (you dont need to do this every time you add more libraries)
    • Boost Start menu shortcut
    • Tools
    • Boost DateTime
    • Boost FileSystem
    • Boost Regex
    • Boost System
    • Boost Thread

Boost11.png Boost12.png

Actually the above options seem to load libs for all compilers and you can cut down the download volume as follows if you wish.

Boost4.png

Click Next, Install

Take note of where you saved boost.