Getting started with Boost under Windows

• Download installer binary from Boostpro Computing and install.
  
  
• To build from Visual Studio IDE
  Setting up #include paths in Microsoft Visual Studio
  Right click the project name in the solution explorer > Properties > C/C++ > General > Additional Include Directories, enter the path to the Boost root directory, for example
  C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_42
  
  In C++ code, include something like
#include <boost/lambda.hpp>


• To link from within Visual Studio IDE
  Right click the project name in the solution explorer > Properties > Linker > General > Additional Library Directories, enter the path to the Boost root directory, for example
  C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_42\lib\