Re: [boost] on quickbook/docbook etc

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 13:47:00

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have for the second time tried to compile a quickbook version of the
> docs for Boost.Range. Without luck. Is there an idiot proof procedure
> for getting this loooong toolchain to work on windows?
>
> My current error (after using the automatic install script) is:
>
> $ bjam --v2
> warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader.
> note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH
> to the note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries,
> respectively. warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface
> (MPI) library.
> note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
> note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
> note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
> Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
> Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
> (don't panic: this is a strictly optional feature).
> ...patience...
> ...found 1052 targets...
> ...updating 2 targets...
> xslt-xsltproc
> ..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\range\doc\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\boos
> t_range.docbook
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
>   set XML_CATALOG_FILES=..\..\..\bin.v2/boostbook_catalog.xml
>  "/bin/xsltproc" --stringparam chunk.first.sections "7" --stringparam
> generate.s
> ection.toc.level "4" --stringparam toc.section.depth "10" --xinclude
> -o "..\..\.
> .\bin.v2\libs\range\doc\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\boost_range.docbook"
> "d:\
> boost\trunk\tools\boostbook\xsl\docbook.xsl"
> "..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\range\doc\msv
> c-8.0\debug\threading-multi\boost_range.xml"

You have a mixture of windows and Unix style paths there, make sure that the 
path to xsltproc is a windows one, and better still, you almost certainly 
need to use the windows build of xsltproc to get it to work.

John.