BlueGo is a tool which builds Boost, Qt and OpenSceneGraph libraries using Visual Studio 2010/12/13. You just have to start the application, select your configuration and hit the Build button- everything else works automatically. The application downloads the library, extracts it and builds it.

The following build configurations are available:

• Supported platforms: x86, x64
• Supported compilers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
• Supported boost versions: 1.51.0, 1.52.0, 1.53.0, 1.54.0, 1.55.0, 1.56.0, 1.57.0, 1.58.0 and from Source (SVN)
• Supported Qt versions: 4.8.3, 4.8.4, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.3.0, 5.3.1
• Supported OpenSceneGraph versions: 3.0.1
• Supported Eigen versions: 3.2.0, 3.2.1
• Supported libLAS versions: 1.7.0
• Supported PCL versions: 1.7.1, From Source (GIT)

More info can be found at http://bluego.vertexwahn.de

BlueGo is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License (see License.txt for further information).

1. You can also download prebuild versions of boost from: http://boost.teeks99.com/

2. CMake offers a features called ExternalProject (http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.10/cmake.html#module:ExternalProject). A simple demo can be found here: CMake External Project Demo. @image cmakeexternalproject.png Package manager for CMake (based on ExternalProject) can be found here: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter/tree/master/examples

3. Using a batch file to build boost: Link

4. Build it manually: How to build third party libraries with Visual Studio.docx

5. Use NuGet. Initially NuGet worked only for .Net Libraries but now it supports also native C++ libraries like the pnglib.

6. Get Qt from http://qt-project.org/

7. Use biicode: https://github.com/biicode/. Seems a very promising project that allows reusing, integrating and sharing various C++ libraries including boost.

8. vcpkg https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/

9. mkvfx: https://github.com/meshula/mkvfx

10. hunter: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter

11. http://www.cpm.rocks/

12. Prebuild boost libraries https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/

13. Use Bazel. There are rules for Boost, Qt and almost everything else you will need. I switched completely to Bazel and will never look back ;).

How to quickly install Boost, QT into Visual Studio 2012 and 2010 for C++ development:

Detection of superfluous include files:

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