I'm developing an app (originally written for Linux) which uses some UUID functionality that originally came from a set of e2fs utilities for Linux. I'm porting the app to Windows so naturally, the e2fs stuff doesn't build. I need to find a UUID implemntation that's more cross-platform - and of course, the obvious one to try is boost::uuid.
I first installed boost when it was at version 1.40 (1-2 years ago?) Anyway, my installed version doesn't include UUID so I decided to update to a more recent version. The most recent Windows installer I could find was for version 1.51, from BoostPro:- http://www.boostpro.com/download/
Building Boost with MSVC is really simple. Just open command-prompt, cd to the directory where you unzipped boost, and invoke "bootstrap", then "b2 --build-type=complete stage". You'll find all the binaries in stage\lib directory. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#invok... <...>
3) AFAICT even ver 1.51 doesn't include any UUID functionality. There was nothing for UUID that was selectable in the installer - and none of the modules look like UUID. I seem to have boost::regex, boost::filesystem, boost:date_time and a whole load of other stuff - but no boost::uuid :-(
UUID is header-only library, so you don't need to build it, and I guess the installer lists only the libraries that have to be pre-built (all the header-only libs are installed anyway). Just #include the appropriate header-files.