Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need to know?

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:12:31 -0500 From: Deane Yang Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need to know?

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bjam *is* difficult to learn at first. For me one reason was simply how alien it looks compared to an IDE or make. And until recently the documentation was simply incomprehensible.

Although I'm really looking forward to the new documentation Dave is going to write, the existing documentation of Boost Build v2 is really not too bad for learning how to compile and link libraries and executables.

I have shied away from boost.build v2 because it says on the opening page "an *onging project* to rewrite Boost.Build" at <http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v2/>--I always assumed it was not ready fro prime time. Sounds like you're saying that, from a doc point of view, it is a good resource for learning v1. I'll check it out--thanks.

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And once you've got the hang of it, building software on different platforms (I've done it on Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX) is incredibly easy and can be done using a single Jamfile.

Do you mean that you have adopted bjam as your day-to-day build tool? Just curious. Mike D.