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Build and Install

wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost_1_33_1.tar.gz
tar zxvf boost_1_33_1.tar.gz
cd boost_1_33_1
#apt-get install bjam // bjam: Software build tool
#bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install // long time , install to /usr/local/lib

Debian:

// Boost 1_31 deb package
apt-get install libboost-date-time-dev
apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev
apt-get install libboost-regex-dev
apt-get install libboost-serialization-dev
apt-get install libboost-test-dev
apt-get install libboost-dev

on fedora:

apt-get install boost-devel 

Examples

#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
 using boost::lexical_cast;        
 int a = lexical_cast<int>("123");
 double b = lexical_cast<double>("123.12");
 std::cout<<a<<std::endl;
 std::cout<<b<<std::endl;
 return 0;
}
g++ -o test -I/usr/local/include/boost-1_33_1/ test.cpp
g++ -o test -I/usr/include/ test.cpp // use boost 1_32 deb package
./test
123
123.12

Windows

add include path : Tools > Options > Directories > include files
C:\C-C++\BOOST_1_33_1

Links

• http://www.boost.org/