How to install boost for VS 2008?

Question

I installed Boost almost completely, but I have a problem setting my path to Boost in Tools-> options-> projects-> VC ++ Directories.

I wrote a path to include files and libraries (my folder contains two subfolders, lib and include ), but when I try to use Boost with #include boost/regex.hpp , I got this communication error:

 LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_regex-vc90-mt-gd-1_36.lib 

Could you tell me how to properly install Boost for Visual Studio 2008?

Answer 1

Use the Boost Installer in the Boost Consulting Group.

Answer 2

Also check out this post for instructions on how to create Boost yourself.

Answer 3

You might be interested in the Visual Studio 2008 feature pack. It adds many features that were only available from Boost so far, features that are part of C ++ TR1.