| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Schober | Sent: 25 May 2005 14:46 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation | | Caleb Epstein <caleb.epstein@gmail.com> wrote: | > [...] | > 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. [...] really how much more hand-holding | > does one need? | | | OK, so I went to the that guide, downloaded boost | 1.32, downloaded bjam.exe, unzipped everything, | and typed, IMHO according to the guide, | C:\Temp\Download\boost\boost_1_32_0>..\bjam.exe bjam | "-sTOOLS=VC71_ROOT" stage < Big snip but my 'log' looks a bit like this - but different set of problems, and I was trying to use the current CVS AND MSVC 8.0 beta 2. Should have learn to walk before I tried to run :-(( I need a LOT more hand holding please - though I can dimly remember using command lines decades ago ;-) I say again - the process MUS be OK to be achieving such stunning results, but the documentation is NOT. Paul Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830 +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com