general question on boost portability

[monkey_king]

Hi,
I'm considering using some boost stuff for my next project.

But it's quite essential, that the program can be ported to multiple platforms with different setups.

I've always used
-ansi -pedantic -Wall
And so far the projects has been working on sun/gnu/intel compilers,
on both windows and linux.

But what if i #include<booststuff>,
is this a big problem for users on a foreign platform.

Can I simply make a copy of the .hpp file to the project dir,
or are boost file too much interrelated?

thanks in advance

[Ancient Dragon]

all boost libraries have to be compiled on the target machine. See this link. That is one way they ensure portability.

>>Can I simply make a copy of the .hpp file to the project dir,
or are boost file too much interrelated?

No. You have to build the libraries on the target platform.

[monkey_king]

Thanks for your reply,
It wasnt the answer I wanted to hear,
but thanks.