VS Code is first and foremost an editor, and relies on command-line tools to do much of the development workflow. Visual Code Studio can be downloaded from the website. For project compilation, consisting of multiple files, the C/C++ Makefile Project extension can be used (and can be adapted for Fortran). The Code Runner extension allows execution of single files.

C/C++ support for Visual Studio Code is provided by a Microsoft C/C++ extension to enable cross-platform C and C++ development on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Boost is a set of libraries for the C++ programming language that provide support for tasks and structures such as linear algebra, pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions, and unit testing.Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. The other interesting points of Boost are : It contains over eighty individual libraries.Complement to STL rather than a replacement.Many of Boost developers are on the C++ standard committee.Most of the Boost libraries are licensed under the Boost Software License, designed to allow Boost to be used with both free and proprietary software projectsīefore jumping into steps of configuring Boost on various IDE, let’s begin with Boost installation.To be noted that on this post I run Xcode on OS X, Code::Blocks on Linux (Ubuntu) and Visual Studio on Windows.

There are several ways of Boost installation. Instead of build from source code, we can use package manager such as MacPorts, Homebrew, Advance Package Tool, etc. In this post we will build Boost from source code.

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