#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](https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/tree/master/examples/chat) 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](www.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:

 ```shell
 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

```shell
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.