Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation -- (Finally) Getting Started

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-07 11:15:20

Rob Stewart wrote:
>    We strongly recommend that you download a prebuilt bjam
>    executable for your platform.  If your platform isn't in the
>    following list, or if you downloaded the latest Boost sources
>    from CVS instead of getting an official release,
>    <a>installation guide</a> describes how to build bjam for
>    yourself.
> 
>       - <a>Windows</a>
>       - <a>Linux</a>
>       - <a>FreeBSD</a>
>       - <a>Solaris</a>
>       - <a>Mac OS</a>
> 
> (I'd leave the rest of the details to <a>installation guide</a>.)
> 
Much better.

My notes:

The binaries will work only with the same Boost version. It's possible 
that Boost 1.32 will fail to compile with Bjam from later versions.

So here is the next version:

If you downloaded Boost 1.33 release, download a prebuilt bjam 
executable for your platform.

    - <a>Windows</a>
    - <a>Linux</a>
    - <a>FreeBSD</a>
    - <a>Solaris</a>
    - <a>Mac OS</a>

If you downloaded the latest Boost sources from CVS, or if your platform 
isn't listed, <a>installation guide</a> describes how to build bjam 
yourself.

Andrey