On 25 May 2005, at 13:37, Stuart Dootson wrote:
On 5/25/05, Caleb Epstein <caleb.epstein@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/25/05, Stuart Dootson <stuart.dootson@gmail.com> wrote:
1. Download and unpack Boost!
2. Open up a Visual Studio 2003 command prompt window (this is on the Start Menu entry for Visual Studio 2003, and has pre-run vcvars32.bat) and 'cd' to the root Boost directory. Execute the command
bjam -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 --prefix=c:\lib\boost
But to do this you need to build (and install someplace in your PATH) or download bjam first. Its not hard, but this may not be imediately obvious to the newbie.
I really think the Getting Started guide is more than adequate, and is concise and easy to follow. There are gigantic yellow numbers next to the important steps. Perhaps an "ultra-quick-start for the command line averse" could be added, but really how much more hand-holding does one need?
You're right, I forgot a step - I was going to download the Boost distro to see if bjam.exe was in it, but the Sourceforge downloads area is blocked at work, so I couldn't.
I would tend to agree with you that (for me) the Getting Started guide is sufficient - but then, I've always been comfortable with using the command-line (I've got a VAX/VMS and Unix history before Windows). There are a lot of Windows developers out there who haven't got that level of comfort.
Stuart Dootson
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Ditto, I find that the Getting started guide was easy as pie to use for setting up with Windows and VS.NET. Again though, I also am quite conformable with the command line and using bits of Linux here (at the same time I'm not unix pro). TBH, I think any self respecting C++ user should have experience in a cross platform environment. I'm surprised how many Windows-only programmers there are out there. Jase