but I think this whole thread was started to make it easier for novices to check out boost. Having to learn a special tool (bjam) in order to do that isn't exactly easy (even if the expected usage might be rather trivial).
Exactly and it doesn't matter where you run bjam from or not its no different. The easiest thing to do is to hide from the user the fact bjam is running by a simple gui run post installation (this installs boost source tree and prebuit bjam binaries into the install directory and adds the directory to the user path) that allows common configurations to be built at the touch of a button as well as adding the install include + lib directories to the toolsets include + lib paths if they support that. This is a very simple first step in usability without going the whole hog of auto generating solution files and whatnot from the bjam build source. I wouldnt imagine this would take more than a day to put together (at least in demo form) and may well help guide the discussion. Martin -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.2.0 - Release Date: 27/05/2005