OK - I didn't expect anything to require a C++ compiler just to build documentation I added using msvc : 7.1 and ran bjam --v2 - as per instructions on http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook/setup/running.html and things did crank way for quite a while and produced a lot of output on the console. It ended with an encouraging messsage (which I have since scrolled off the top of the screen). I run bjam --v2 again and it "finishes" pretty quickly with output which looks like: ...patience... ...found 1100 targets... ...updating 1 target... xslt-xsltproc-dir html\HTML.manifest warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/releas xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl" compilation error: file file:///C%3A/BoostHead/tools/boostbook/xsl/html.xsl li 8 element import xsl:import : unable to load http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current .... set XML_CATALOG_FILES=..\bin.v2\doc\msvc-7.1\debug/catalog.xml "xsltproc" --stringparam boost.libraries ../../libs/libraries.htm --path ..\bin .v2\libs\foreach\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs\functional\hash\doc\ms vc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs\math\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs \static_assert\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs\tr1\doc\msvc-7.1\debug - -path ..\bin.v2\libs\type_traits\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs\typeof \doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\libs\xpressive\doc\msvc-7.1\debug --path .. \bin.v2\more\whos_using\msvc-7.1\debug --path ..\bin.v2\tools\jam\doc\msvc-7.1\d ebug\link-static --path ..\bin.v2\tools\quickbook\doc\msvc-7.1\debug\link-static --xinclude -o "html/" "C:\BoostHead\tools\boostbook\xsl\html.xsl" "..\bin.v2\do c\msvc-7.1\debug\boost.docbook" ...failed xslt-xsltproc-dir html\HTML.manifest... ...failed updating 1 target... I don't find any *.html files in the html directory. So, I'm stuck again. Robert Ramey John Maddock wrote:
Robert Ramey wrote:
$ bjam --v2 warning: Python location is not configured warning: the Boost.Python library won't be built Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled. Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information (and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it). warning: no toolsets are configured. warning: you won't be able to build C++ programs. warning: please consult the documentation at warning: http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html
You need to follow that link and activate at least one compiler in your user-config.jam
John.