Getting started with Boost libraries
We shall now set up a development sandbox for you to write code using the Boost libraries. We can either install a binary distribution of the Boost libraries, or build them from source. If we build them from source, we have a whole range of concerns to take care of from choosing a suitable naming convention for the library files and building the libraries, to making sure that we are linking them to the correct versions of the library. There are platform-specific differences too that need to be handled; we shall take a look at both the Linux and Windows environments.
Necessary software
On Linux, we will only consider the C++ compiler (g++) version 4.8.1 or later, distributed with the GNU Compiler Collection
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