Using Boost on ubuntu

Question

I\'ve heard a lot of good comments about Boost in the past and thought I would give it a try. So I downloaded all the required packages from the package manager in Ubuntu 9.

Answer 1

Using Easypeasy 1.1 (for netbooks) which is based upon Ubuntu I was able to use Synaptic Package Manager to install, I believe, libboost-dev. Then simply by adding:

#include "boost/foreach.hpp"

I was able to replace the existing lines in an existing application (which has an Ask class which has nothing to do with boost):

for (std::vector::iterator ii=ui.begin(); ii!=ui.end(); ++ii)
    std::cout << (*ii)->prompt() << (*ii)->answer() << std::endl;

with:

BOOST_FOREACH (Ask* ii, ui)
     std::cout << ii->prompt() << ii->answer() << std::endl;

As I understand it this is a header only feature. I have not used anything requiring link time changes yet.