[Boost-users] Can I copy/paste Boost source code and compile directly into my application?

Dear Boosters, I would like to use the Boost/regex library in my application, but I don't want my users to have to install Boost. My preference would be to copy a minimal set of Boost .hpp and .cpp files into a sub-directory of my application and then compile and link the boost/regex stuff in the same way as the rest of my application. Note that the regex library is not a header-only library. So, is there a reasonably straight-forward and well-accepted procedure to do this? Apologies if this topic has already been covered, but I can't seem to get a hit. Many thanks, Fred