#SioChatDemo setup
This Demo is create with Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 , It is a simple console app, connect to official socket.io chatroom example as a chat client.
You can choose a nickname, send/receive message in the chat room, and see join/left information as well.
##boost for windows
Please download boost package from boost.org, and unpack to boost folder.
Please make sure there's no redundent folder levels under it (by check if bootstrap.bat is directly under boost folder).
cd to boost folder, and run bootstrap.bat
Then run:
bjam stage --toolset=msvc --with-system --with-date_time --with-random --stagedir="release" link=static runtime-link=shared threading=multi release
bjam stage --toolset=msvc --with-system --with-date_time --with-random --stagedir="debug" link=static runtime-link=shared threading=multi debug
After done this, use Visual studio command line tool, go to boost\release folder, run
lib.exe /OUT:boost.lib *
And do then same thing in boost\debug folder.
then you can open the VS project SioChatDemo.sln to build and run.
##Visual studio version
Microsoft start to support c++11 after Visual studio 2012 Update 4. Please make sure you're using up-to-date version.