How do I install Crypto++ in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

I downloaded http://www.cryptopp.com/#download 5.6.1 and have no clue that to do at this point. I am a total noob and need good instructions. thanks.

Answer 1

I downloaded http://www.cryptopp.com/#download 5.6.1 and have no clue what to do at this point...

This is a very late answer, but the project has released some new files to help folks use Visual Studio 2010 and above.

The project had to release the updated files because VCUpgrade (provided with Visual Studio 2010) does a fairly poor job with this particular project. It has been a source of problems for a few years, and even visually impaired users were commenting about it. The problems were not fixed in VS2012, VS2013 and VS2015, so we don't believe Microsoft has any intentions of fixing the problems.

To use the updated files, download the latest Crypto++ release from the website. Then, visit the Crypto++ wiki and fetch vs2010.zip from the page Visual Studio. Unzip vs2010.zip over the Crypto++ files. Finally double-click the file called cryptest.sln to have Visual Studio open the solution file.

The Crypto++ wiki page also offers project files that provide dynamic runtime linking for both VS2005 and VS2010.