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hello i have been coding in many languages mainly c++ for like almost a year now using libarys such as SDL,Allegro,Opengl,Glew but for life of me i need some simplfied tutorial on everything to build boost filesystem


can someone tell me how to do it im not very savy on commandline stuff also im more of a graphical user interface kinda person but if i have to use command line then so be it but im not an expert by no means and dont understand technical wording so please be weary when answering sorry if that annoys you



thanks in advance

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To start with, what is your development environment? Using gcc on Linux is different from Visual C++ 2010 on Windows 7, for example.
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Window 7 Code::Blocks 10.5 with mingw i have boost_1_74_0.zip

Edited by NoobScratcher, 24 October 2011 - 08:45 AM.


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Does your installation of mingw include make?
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yes so you want me to cd into command line ? but i dont really know how to use make

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This page may help:

Binary installer for Boost on MinGW - ASCEND

Basically, you have to build bjam, which is what boost uses as their alternative to a make file, but there's an installer available.
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