I am on Visual Studio 2013, downloaded the regular boost libraries (version 1.55) and installed them to C:/Program Files/Boost/
I then created a new empty C++ project and added the following to my "Include Directories":
C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_1_55_0;
This is my code:
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
boost::asio::io_service io_service;
for (int x = 0; x < 42; ++x)
{
io_service.poll();
std::cout << "Counter: " << x << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}
Once bootstrap
and ./b2
had finished executing I then added the following path to "Additional Library Dependencies":
C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_1_55_0\stage\lib
but I get the following error messages:
Main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class boost::system::error_category const & __cdecl boost::system::system_category(void)" (?system_category@system@boost@@YAAEBVerror_category@12@XZ) referenced in function "public: __cdecl boost::system::error_code::error_code(void)" (??0error_code@system@boost@@QEAA@XZ)
Main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class boost::system::error_category const & __cdecl boost::system::generic_category(void)" (?generic_category@system@boost@@YAAEBVerror_category@12@XZ) referenced in function "void __cdecl boost::system::`dynamic initializer for 'errno_ecat''(void)" (??__Eerrno_ecat@system@boost@@YAXXZ)
If I go to C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_1_55_0\stage\lib
it contains:
- libboost_system-vc120-mt-1_55
- libboost_system-vc120-mt-gd-1_55
UPDATE: It appears my headers didn't get built correctly or some where missing. I just downloaded and ran the installer from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.55.0/
The VS 2013 ones are msvc12
Then I set up my additional library dependencies as normal.