How to make boost multiprecision library work in Visual Studio 2010? - visual-studio-2010

I downloaded and installed Boost. It works but multiprecision part of library (especially float128.h) needs some external libs depends on libquadmath from gcc. I downloaded MinGW, installed and it still doesn't work. How to make it work?

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The GMP Library Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2017 CE

I'm trying to use the boost's multi-precision math library. I'm using visual studio 2017 CE with the latest version and compiler setting to latest draft standard. I have the newest version of boost installed and working 1.66. However, one of boost headers includes gmp.h. So I went to GNU's GMP site and downloaded the library, and extracted it to a folder where I want the library to reside.
I was reading through their documentation on how to install the library, but it is completely lacking in any directions for installing on windows. The only thing it does mention under windows is mingw in which I'm not using. I'm using visual c++.
Is there any way to resolve this in order to use boost's multiprecision headers?
I've been reading up a little bit about the MPFR library; if I install that instead of GMP will that take care of the needed files to successfully compile, link and build the boost's mp library?

Installing Boost > 1.51 on Windows: substitute for Boost Pro?

Ever since I started using boost on Windows with Visual Studio 2010 I just downloaded the binary package available on BoostPro as recommended by the boost documentation. I'm currently at Boost 1.51 and would like to upgrade to Boost 1.55. Now since BoostPro is no longer offering these packages, is there a substitute method to install the binary package or do I now need to build boost myself?
I see at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/more/getting_started/windows.html the statement:
The most reliable way to get a copy of Boost is to download
boost_1_55_0.7z or boost_1_55_0.zip and unpack it to install a
complete Boost distribution
Will this be equivalent to the Boost Pro binaries I used to download or will this still require building stuff?
Then I also found http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/. Overall I'm confused. Basically I'd like a simple installation like BoostPro used to offer if that is still available.
You can use the binaries from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/. They will work OK provided you pick up proper configuration of your compiler. Note that MSVC 2013 has some issues with some of Boost versions.
These binaries are not guaranteed to work because your compiler or STL can be customized in various ways. That is why Boost recommends to compile the package locally.

dll Dependency unwanted with visual studio 2010

I am using visual studio 2010.
Before starting my project, I installed cuda SDK 4.2.
After that, I installed opencv 2.4.2. In my project, I'm using only opencv and it works correctly. However, when I try to run my program on another computer it tells me that cuda dll (like cudart32_42_9.dll, npp32_42_9.dll and nvcuda.dll) are needed. I don't use at all cuda and do no reference in my project property to cuda. I would like to know how to remove those dependency. I don't understand why visual studio add dll I don't use.
The pre-built OpenCV 2.2 onwards, comes with 2 versions of the binaries (dlls).
The dlls in the \build\gpu directory are the superset and are built with CUDA support. Therefore, to use them you require the CUDA Runtime dlls (cudart, npp etc). These binaries are required if you want to use the GPU functionality of OpenCV. These may also be used to check if you have a GPU present in your system or not.
The other version of dlls which are present in the x86 or x64 folder in the build directory of OpenCV, are built without CUDA support (although a gpu dll is also present in that directory). You don't need cuda dlls to use these binaries.
Both of these versions are built with Intel Thread Building Blocks support, and so require tbb_debug.dll and tbb.dll for Debug and Release configurations respectively. So if you use the CPU functions of OpenCV, they will be TBB Accelerated.

ffmpeg compiling on MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008)

i want to compile ffmpeg on windows MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008) because i want to use it in wamp server 2 which is compiled using the same compiler however am currently at a loss of how to do this as there are no visual studio solution files. I know it is possible because people have compiled dlls but i cant seem to find just how they did it . There are also some precompiled dlls here but they are incompatible with my php version 5.38. Please help
FFMPEG does not compile natively under MSVC. You'll need to compile it under mingw or download pre-built libs/dlls from here
You will be able to compile your own apps against the link libraries with MSVC though.

Installing Qt4 on Windows - do I need to fully install MinGW or just have local copies

That is, can I get away with DLLs in the install directory or does the installer need to ensure that MingW is fully installed?
If you install the Qt SDK, it will actually install its own MinGW tree.
This does not directly answer your question, but generally speaking, to ensure I have all the right dependencies when creating an installer, I do the following:
Use Depends, a Microsoft tool that shows what DLLs a Windows executable (.exe or another .dll) depends on. This will not show dynamically loaded DLLs though, such as QT plugins. I believe Depends is part of the Platform SDK (it used to be, anyway), which you should be able to download. See here for example.
Use a virtualization tool (like VirtualBox or VMWare) to install a fresh copy of Windows and your application. If it complains of missing DLLs on startup, you missed something in the install package.
You should be aware of any dependencies on the Visual C++ run-time. There are many different versions out there, and if your app depends on them, you need to install the correct version to the Windows\WinSxS directory. Microsoft provides a redistributable for each version of Visual C++ (including the express edition, which you can get for free). I only mention this because I noticed when installing Qt SDK that the VC++ redistributable was getting installed, so the Qt DLLs may have a dependency on the VC++ run-time.

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