Gustavo Sánchez wrote: [snip] 1.- I did the outlined comands in getting started cd boost_1_31_0 bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc" install As result I obtained in drive C: a boost dir with "include" and "libs" subdirs and [snip list of DLLs] and the related .lib files. Why aren't there any .dll file of the others libraries(graph, math, type_traits...)??? All their source code is included in header files as inline functions or function templates. Whatever code you use from them will automatically be compiled into your executable. I can't answer your other questions. Ben.