"Bertolt Mildner" <Bertolt.Mildner@gmx.at> writes:
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on windows, the result is installed to c:\boost. I'm not sure it makes a good overlap.
IMHO c:\boost is a very bad choice! Creating driectories directly in the root is never nice, not even on Windows!
Why not $PROGRAM_FILES$\boost\ or even better $PROGRAM_FILES$\boost\$VERSION$\
Well, because Boost is not a Program File (application).
where
$VERSION$ is the version of boost and
$PROGRAM_FILES$ is what ever path your system tells you when asked with the right Win32 API call? (On my german system that would be C:\Programme)
Even for libraries this is IMHO the only "right" location to install too per default.
What's the precedent? Python installs to c:\PythonXX where XX is a version number * 10. FWIW. At least if it's installed to C:\boost you can find it easily and move it wherever you like. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com