Building Boost C++ 1.53 on Windows

I built it by following the links below. Compared with the old days, the build process feels a little simpler now. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
https://sites.google.com/site/boostjp/howtobuild

Since Subversion is slow, I cloned the latest version from GitHub and built it from there. First build the b2 and bjam build system, then build the libraries.

$git clone https://github.com/ryppl/boost-svn.git$ cd boost-svn $bootstrap.bat$ b2.exe install -j5 -d0 --prefix=.\build

The number passed to the -j option specifies the number of cores. I read that physical cores + 1 works best. The -d option suppresses informational output.

The installation destination is specified with prefix.