Installing boost libraries for GCC (MinGW) on Windows

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Installing boost libraries for GCC (MinGW) on Windows

Ensure GCC is working as expected.

1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Run g++ --version.
3. If the output contains g++ version number then GCC should be set up properly to run from command line and you can continue.

Boost installation

1. open MSYS2 MINGW32
2. install boost by using the command pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-boost

Project setup

1. Add arguement -lws2_32 args array in vscode in task.json.
2. Add arguement "C:\\msys64\\usr\\include" in includePath array in c_cpp_properties.json file.

            "args": [
                "-static-libstdc++",
                "-fdiagnostics-color=always",
                "-g",
                "${file}",
                "-o",
                "${fileDirname}\\${fileBasenameNoExtension}.exe",
                "-lws2_32"
            ],

args in task.json should look like this.