I was compiling a project with Visual Studio 2005 that requires the Boost libraries. Unfortunately I did not have them on my system, even though I had Boost itself installed in c:\boost_1_33_1. The VS2005 linker complains with the following error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_thread-vc80-mt-gd-1_33_1.lib'
There are two ways to resolve this.
The first is to compile the libraries yourself. Follow the instructions at this link: http://www.codeproject.com/tips/Building_boost_libraries.asp. The instructions are for VS2003, but VS2005 can be used with a minor modification: change -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 to -sTOOLS=vc-8_0 when you get to that step.
You can also download precompiled Boost libraries from http://www.boost-consulting.com/download.html.
These are not considered "official" Boost releases, but they are the closest thing to it.