• Download and unzip Boost to a local directory, e.g. C:\boost_1_49_0.
• Download and unzip Protocol Buffers to a local directory, e.g. C:\protobuf-2.4.1
• Build libprotobuf.lib, by opening protobuf.sln (e.g. C:\protobuf-2.4.1\vsprojects\protobuf.sln) in Visual Studio and building the libprotobuf project. Make sure you use the same version of Visual Studio that you will use to build RCFProto.

From Visual Studio, open cpp\vs2008\demo\RCFProtoDemo.sln. If you are using a Visual Studio version newer than Visual Studio 2008, you will be prompted to upgrade the solution. The demo solution contains three projects (DemoClient, DemoServer and RCFProto):

• Before building the solution, make sure the include directories and library directories for all 3 projects, match your own installation paths for Boost and Protocol Buffers.
• The include directories for each project must include Boost (e.g. C:\boost_1_49_0) and Protocol Buffers (e.g. C:\protobuf-2.4.1\src).
• The library directories for each project must include the path to libprotobuf.lib (e.g. C:\protobuf-2.4.1\vsprojects\Debug).
• Include directories and library directories are configured in the Visual Studio project properties:
  
  Configuring Additional Include Directories (Boost and Protocol Buffers)
  Configuring Additional Library Directories (Protocol Buffers)

To build, right click on the solution in Visual Studio and press Build. A pre-build event will run protoc.exe to generate Demo.pb.cc (containing source code for Protocol Buffer messages), and the projects will then be built. Your output window should look similar to this:

• From the root directory of the distribution, cd to the build output location:

cd cpp\demo\vs2008\Debug


• Run the demo server:

DemoServer.exe


• Run the demo client (in a different command prompt):

DemoClient.exe