Re: [Boost-users] Generating PDF from QuickBook?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Generating PDF from QuickBook?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-07 12:02:42

AMDG

On 02/07/2014 08:44 AM, Nat Goodspeed wrote:
> I'm sorry, this must be a FAQ, but my Google search turned up mail
> from 2009 advising me to cd to libs/xxx/doc and run
> ../../../b2 pdf
> 
> When I do that in a new modular Boost tree, I get the following errors:
> 
> /Users/nat/boost-git/tools/build/src/tools/boostbook.jam:704: in
> construct from module object(boostbook-target-class)@1466
> error: Cannot build documentation type 'pdf'.
> <snip>
> 
> Is there some incantation I can apply to produce PDF output?
> 

You need to set up fop.  I think there's
a wiki page: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostDocs/GettingStarted

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe