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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-07 14:40:41

Andrey Melnikov <melnikov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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.

That's highly unlikely.

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Dave Abrahams
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