Trying to install boost libraries, not working?

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Trying to install boost libraries, not working?

I download the file where it says 'download now' from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/

when i unzip, there's a small .exe file. I run this (and also as administrator) a command prompt pops up and disappears instantly.

Yet everywhere i read i should be getting licence agreement etc.

Im on Win 7 64?

Help :)

Open cmd.exe as an administrator, then run the .exe. That way, you can see the output.

Matthew Flaschen 2010-09-26 00:26:49

+1 A:

That's just the boost jam build tool. You probably want the complete boost source archive. Then to build it, say for VS 2010, see my answer here.

Sean Fausett 2010-09-26 00:27:57

thanks i'll work through that

Tom 2010-09-26 00:34:32

it always annoys me when they cant just put all this in the installer, i know how to code, i dont know how to mess around with configurations. really puts me off using extra libraries :)

Tom 2010-09-26 00:35:12

cd jam source location .\build.bat i seem to be getting stuck on the above, i dont have a bat file, just an exehttp://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/jam/building.html

Tom 2010-09-26 00:43:26

I just download 1.44 now. Extracted and built bjam from `\tools\jam\src` using `build.bat`.

Sean Fausett 2010-09-26 00:53:30

I just successfully built boost 1.44 using bjam. It seems you still have to build the 32-bit and 64-bit targets separately, i.e. do not specify `address-model=32,64`, use two separate builds passing `address-model=32` to the first commandline and `address-model=64` to the second (including all the other commandline options you want).

Sean Fausett 2010-09-26 01:12:52

Use one of the installers provided by BoostPro computing. It is going to be much easier for you.

Benoît 2010-09-26 09:29:27

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