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From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-18 13:40:04
| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of David Abrahams
| Sent: 17 May 2006 22:06
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Cc: boost-users_at_[hidden]
| Subject: [boost] [Announce] Boost Installer for Visual C++ 7.1/8.0
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| Boost Consulting is pleased to announce the availability of a Windows
| installer for the current Boost release (1.33.1). See:
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| http://www.boost-consulting.com/download.html
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| Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including Rene
| Rivera, Eric
| Niebler, Devin Smith, and especially to Daniel Wallin, who applied
| most of the elbow grease.
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| Enjoy!
Brilliant!!!
Enjoyed greatly - for quite a long time due to ill-advised over-exuberent
choice of libraries ;-))
1 Should be default choice be all libraries?
2 Should there be some warning about how long it may take?
3 I got a failure to unpack on library zip: the warning was a little too
easy to dismiss?
4 It would be nice to have a some warning at the end that all didn't go
right.
5 Is there a log file saved to record what happened (good and bad).
6 If so telling us what it was called might be helpful.
7 It would add to its idiot-proofness, if it reminded Windows Users to set
or at least check the include and libraries directories. Perhaps:
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You probably need to add or check that the Microsoft IDE Tools, Options,
VC++ Directories, the "Show directories" dropdown for include files refer to
??\boost_?_?\, and also for library files refer to ??\boost\boost_?_?\lib.
For example, if you installed verio 1.33.1 to the default location, include
should reference "C:\Program files\boost\boost_1_33_1" and libraries
"c:\Program files\boost\boost_1_33_1\lib"
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(Unless we recommend some global environment variable that makes the version
switch?)
But many thanks - I think this make a BIG difference to Windows Users use of
Boost.
Paul
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