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I installed Boost (in order to compile a different program), or several parts of it, I don't remember, and I remember the download being like 30 or more megabytes. If I use Boost in my program, do I only distribute sections of Boost, or am I left with a huge dependency?
I think that Boost is statically linked, so you wouldn't have any dependencies at all. Your executable would just increase in size by a small amount. Not very much. I compiled source-highlight (which uses Boost::Regex), and the executable was less than 1.5 MB. Plus source-highlight is a pretty complicated program.
BTW, Boost, when compiled, takes up more like 300 MB of disk space. If you build everything.
Most boost libraries can be used without building or linking to boost. You just #include the header and it is used in your program. So not only do you not have to distribute anything, but your exe size won't be affected much.
Sweet. Thanks guys.