如何在项目中使用Boost库（VS2015）

Question

I have Visual Studio 2015 and I'm trying to build the sample boost 1.62 link program on the ' Boost Getting Started ' page. I followed the build steps in order to compile the various binaries, like regex. These are the steps:

c:\boost> bootstrap
c:\boost> .\b2

I got multiple errors because 'pyconfig.h' was missing, but I don't need this so I thought it was ok.

I set the 'Additional Libraries Directory' in my test project to c:\\boost\\libs, but at link time, get:

error: cannot open file libboost_regex-vc140-mt-gd-1_62.lib

I looked under .\\libs and there were no lib files under there. I did see a new bin.v2 directory under boost\\, which, under a very complicate tree has the lib file.

I set the 'Additional Libraries Directories' in my project to c:\\boost\\bin.v2, but same error.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to be able to link successfully? Do I need to resolve that pyconfig.h error to get the libs deployed to the right location?

Answer 1

I found the problem. It appears VC++ projects should add an include path to .\\boost\\stage\\lib, instead of what the boost webpage says. I don't know if this is true intention, but it appears to work.