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Could someone point me to a place that tells me how to install boost for Visual Studio 17 #190
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This information should be covered in the documentation for the language track. Did you look there? |
In v2 the tracks documentation is very hard to discover. It is only a small area below the progress meters that are links to the tracks documentation, also I have not yet checked if everything of the old documentation is still available. Until then, the installation documentation is available in this repository: https://github.com/exercism/cpp/blob/master/docs/INSTALLATION.md |
The instructions are pretty vague for getting boost setup and difficult to follow for anyone who is at the "hello world" level of c++.
How do we download the compiled binaries? When I download the boost_1_67_0.7z and unpack it I don't have a libraries directory. Going to the boost website isn't much help:
Where do I unpack it? Do I have to build it to generate the binaries? The instructions need to be step-by-step without making assumptions about the user. Currently they seem as if they are written by someone very familiar with installing Boost and setting up a development environment when they should be much simpler with very basic atomic steps. |
From what I've been able to find, using the CMake generator of "Visual Studio 15 2017" implies 32 bit, so I've only been able to get the x86 of Boost to work (i.e. https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.67.0/boost_1_67_0-msvc-14.1-32.exe/download) In order to get x64 to work, I use the CMake generator of "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" and of course the x64 version of Boost (i.e. https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.67.0/boost_1_67_0-msvc-14.1-64.exe/download) Note: You still need to make sure you match up your version of VisualStudio to the correct Boost download link, the above links are for VS2017. This is the command I'm using successfully from the <exercism_dir>\cpp\hello_world\build directory: x86 version:
x64 version:
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We've removed our dependency on Boost, see #233. You can now just open the downloaded exercise folder in Visual Studio and everything should just work, you never need to run CMake manually on windows. See the new docs. |
I've tried all day and the documentation is very vague and assumes a good bit of knowledge. I've tried following multiple online guides, but they all seem out of date or just impossible to follow
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