Re: [boost] Moving the include directoryto$BOOST_ROOT/include?(again)

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving the include directoryto$BOOST_ROOT/include?(again)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-03 05:43:27

Gavin Lambert wrote:
On 3/06/2015 01:57, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > All existing Visual Studio projects and solutions, and everything that 
> > still points its include directory to the Boost root, will (should) 
> > continue to work because of the symbolic link from $BOOST_ROOT/boost -> 
> > $BOOST_ROOT/include/boost, which I've proposed for this purpose.
>
> Unfortunately this is not the case, as symlinks are Complicated™ on 
> Windows and don't work by default out of the box.

I say "symlink" for brevity but on Windows in the common case it will 
probably be a junction.