Thursday, November 14, 2013

Nuget packages for Boost 1.55

https://getboost.codeplex.com/releases/view/114813. Source files and pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2012 (vc110) and 2013 (vc120).

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Boost at nuget.org

It's unofficial but it works https://www.nuget.org/packages/boost/. For Visual Studio 2012, supported platforms: Win32 and x64.

It's huge 235Mb and takes about half an hour to install.

  1. Open your C++ project. Or create a new one.
  2. Open Tools | Library Package Manager | Manage NuGet Packages for Solution....
  3. Search for "boost" in Online | NuGet Official Package Source (Include Prerelease).
  4. Press the Install button.
  5. Wait for about 10 minutes.
  6. Select your C++ project and press Ok.
  7. Wait for another 10 minutes.
  8. Close the dialogs.
  9. Include some boost header files. For example: #include <boost/atomic.hpp>
  10. Build the project.

Update

The updated boost package doesn't contain compiled libraries (.lib/.dll) any more. Now it's only 15Mb. I've created separate packages for the boost compiled libraries: