Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of BoostDocs/GettingStarted

Timestamp:

Nov 23, 2008, 11:21:00 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Daniel James

Comment:

Link to the getting started guide, to help setup bjam.

BoostDocs/GettingStarted

@@ -20 +20 @@
 It might be easier to use Cygwin (see below).
 
+First, you need to get the boost build tools set up, see [http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/more/getting_started/index.html the getting started guide] for an introduction.
+
   - Create directory for boost tools, say `c:\boost-tools`.
   - Create directory for binaries, say `c:\boost-tools\bin`.
   - Add to path.
-  - Download prebuilt bjam from [http://www.boost.org/users/download/ the boost download page].
-  - Extract bjam to binary directory.
   - xml tools from [http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/ Igor Zlatkovic]. Require: `iconv`, `libxml2` and `libxslt`, `zlib`. (Don't use version 2.6.32+ of libxml2, there's a [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538905 bug] which breaks doxygen import, 2.6.30 works).
 
@@ -45 +45 @@
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-Also install:
+If you want to build the complete documentation, you'll also need to install:
 
   * [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html#latestsrc Doxygen]
@@ -70 +70 @@
 
 === Cygwin ===
+
+First, you need to get the boost build tools set up. `bjam` will need to be built using cygwin, so don't use the prebuilt windows binary.
 
 Cygwin packages:
@@ -103 +105 @@
 === OS X ===
 
+I'm not sure about any of this...
+
  * Doxygen has an OS X download.
  * `xsltproc` is included with OS X, but might be a little old,
@@ -112 +116 @@
 
 === Debian/ubuntu ===
+
+First, you need to get the boost build tools set up, see [http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/more/getting_started/index.html the getting started guide] for an introduction. You can probably use the `bjam` package.
 
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