I'm going to try to write a better getting started guide for the boost documentation tools, outside of the individual tools' documentation. Just a very rough outline to start with. This will be of only limited scope - full documentation will be in the tools' documentation.

How to build boost documentation

Required packages (see below for platform specific instructions).

• bjam
• xsltproc
• ​Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL stylesheets
• ​The DocBook DTD
• doxygen (optional for writing your own, but required for several libraries' documentation).
• latex (optional for writing your own, but required for Boost.Accumulators' formulas)

TODO

Windows

It might be easier to use Cygwin (see below).

Build/download bjam and add to path

Unpack under a single directory, such as C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/ (maybe bjam could be included in the same directory structure....):

• xml tools from ​Igor Zlatkovic. Require: iconv, zlib, libxml2 and libxslt. (Don't use version 2.6.32+ of libxml2, there's a ​bug which breaks doxygen import, 2.6.30 works).
• ​Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL stylesheets
• ​The DocBook DTD

Also install:

• Doxygen
• MikTeX
• Ghostscript

The bin directories of these tools needs to be added to the path. I think Doxygen and MikTex's installers do this for you, but ghostscript's doesn't.

user-config.jam:

using xsltproc
    : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/bin/xsltproc.exe"
    ;

using boostbook
    : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/docbook-xsl"
    : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/docbook-xml"
    ;

using doxygen ;
using quickbook ;

Cygwin

Cygwin packages:

• Libs/libxml2
• Libs/libxslt
• Devel/doxygen
• Text/docbook-xml42
• Text/docbook-xsl
• Text/tetex-extra (for accumulators, I'm not sure if this is the right one?)
• Graphics/ghostscript

Build bjam

user-config.jam:

using xsltproc ;

using boostbook
    : /usr/share/docbook-xsl
    : /usr/share/xml/docbook/4.2
    ;

using doxygen ;
using quickbook ;

Unix with automatic script

TODO

OS X

• Doxygen has an OS X download.
• xsltproc is included with OS X, but might be a little old, ​binaries are available.
• Need to install docbook manually.
• ​MacTex

(Alternatively use macports or fink?)

Debian/ubuntu

# TODO: What's the correct latex package?
sudo apt-get install xsltproc docbook-xsl docbook-xml doxygen texlive-full

Add to user-config.jam:

using xsltproc ;

using boostbook
    : /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh
    : /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.2
    ;

# Remove this line if you're not using doxygen
using doxygen ;
using quickbook ;

Pre-build quickbook

TODO

How to build pdfs

TODO

DocUtils

Some of the documentation uses python docutils, but I don't think it should be included with the main getting started documentation, as that is complicated enough. Unfortunately the docutils toolset doesn't support the debian or macports package layout, and I suspect many other package management tools. So I'll probably try to change it to support them to make life easier.