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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.7: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
+<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.8: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
<title>Boost Getting Started on Unix Variants</title>
<meta content="Getting Started with Boost on Unix Variants (including Linux and MacOS)" name="description" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../rst.css" type="text/css" />
@@ -61,14 +61,14 @@
<div class="section" id="get-boost">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19">1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Get Boost</a></h1>
<p>The most reliable way to get a copy of Boost is to download a
-distribution from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_47_0.html">SourceForge</a>:</p>
+distribution from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_48_0.html">SourceForge</a>:</p>
<ol class="arabic">
-<li><p class="first">Download <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_47_0.html"><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt><tt class="docutils literal">.tar.bz2</tt></a>.</p>
+<li><p class="first">Download <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_48_0.html"><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt><tt class="docutils literal">.tar.bz2</tt></a>.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">In the directory where you want to put the Boost installation,
execute</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-tar --bzip2 -xf <em>/path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt>.tar.bz2
+tar --bzip2 -xf <em>/path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt>.tar.bz2
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ creators usually choose to break Boost up into several packages,
reorganize the directory structure of the Boost distribution,
and/or rename the library binaries.<a class="footnote-reference" href="#packagers" id="id2"><sup>1</sup></a> If you have
any trouble, we suggest using an official Boost distribution
-from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_47_0.html">SourceForge</a>.</p>
+from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_48_0.html">SourceForge</a>.</p>
</div>
<!-- Copyright David Abrahams 2006. Distributed under the Boost -->
<!-- Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying -->
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/vers
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20">2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Boost Distribution</a></h1>
<p>This is a sketch of the resulting directory structure:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-<strong>boost_1_47_0</strong><strong>/</strong> .................<em>The “boost root directory”</em>
+<strong>boost_1_48_0</strong><strong>/</strong> .................<em>The “boost root directory”</em>
<strong>index.htm</strong> .........<em>A copy of www.boost.org starts here</em>
<strong>boost</strong><strong>/</strong> .........................<em>All Boost Header files</em>
<tt class="docutils literal"> </tt>
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ anything you can use in these directories.</p>
</div>
<p>It's important to note the following:</p>
<ol class="arabic" id="boost-root-directory">
-<li><p class="first">The path to the <strong>boost root directory</strong> (often <tt class="docutils literal">/usr/local/</tt><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt>) is
+<li><p class="first">The path to the <strong>boost root directory</strong> (often <tt class="docutils literal">/usr/local/</tt><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt>) is
sometimes referred to as <tt class="docutils literal">$BOOST_ROOT</tt> in documentation and
mailing lists .</p>
</li>
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ int main()
<p>Now, in the directory where you saved <tt class="docutils literal">example.cpp</tt>, issue the
following command:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-c++ -I <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt> example.cpp -o example
+c++ -I <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt> example.cpp -o example
</pre>
<p>To test the result, type:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ you'll need to acquire library binaries.</p>
<p>Issue the following commands in the shell (don't type <tt class="docutils literal">$</tt>; that
represents the shell's prompt):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-<strong>$</strong> cd <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt>
+<strong>$</strong> cd <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt>
<strong>$</strong> ./bootstrap.sh --help
</pre>
<p>Select your configuration options and invoke <tt class="docutils literal">./bootstrap.sh</tt> again
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ installing software. First, you'll need to build and
install it. To do this:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Go to the directory <tt class="docutils literal">tools</tt><tt class="docutils literal">/</tt><tt class="docutils literal">build</tt><tt class="docutils literal">/</tt><tt class="docutils literal">v2</tt><tt class="docutils literal">/</tt>.</li>
-<li>Run <tt class="docutils literal">bootstrap.bat</tt></li>
+<li>Run <tt class="docutils literal">bootstrap.sh</tt></li>
<li>Run <tt class="docutils literal">b2 install <span class="pre">--prefix=</span></tt><em>PREFIX</em> where <em>PREFIX</em> is
the directory where you want Boost.Build to be installed</li>
<li>Add <em>PREFIX</em><tt class="docutils literal">/</tt><tt class="docutils literal">bin</tt> to your PATH environment variable.</li>
@@ -359,19 +359,6 @@ known to work well with Boost</td>
require <a class="reference external" href="../../tools/build/index.html">configuring</a> another
toolset to act as its backend</td>
</tr>
-<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">cw</tt></td>
-<td>Metrowerks/Freescale</td>
-<td>The CodeWarrior compiler. We
-have not tested versions of
-this compiler produced since
-it was sold to Freescale.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">dmc</tt></td>
-<td>Digital Mars</td>
-<td>As of this Boost release, no
-version of dmc is known to
-handle Boost well.</td>
-</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">darwin</tt></td>
<td>Apple Computer</td>
<td>Apple's version of the GCC
@@ -397,10 +384,6 @@ operating system.</td>
<td>Microsoft</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
-<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">qcc</tt></td>
-<td>QNX Software Systems</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal">sun</tt></td>
<td>Sun</td>
<td>Only very recent versions are
@@ -437,7 +420,7 @@ b2 <strong>--build-dir=</strong><a class="reference internal" href="#id10"><em>b
please see the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/invocation.html">Boost.Build documentation</a>.</p>
<p>For example, your session might look like this:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-$ cd ~/<tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt>
+$ cd ~/<tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt>
$ b2 <strong>--build-dir=</strong>/tmp/build-boost <strong>toolset=</strong>gcc stage
</pre>
<p>That will build static and shared non-debug multi-threaded variants of the libraries. To build all variants, pass the additional option, “<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--build-type=complete</span></tt>”.</p>
@@ -553,14 +536,14 @@ project.</li>
<ol class="upperalpha">
<li><p class="first">You can specify the full path to each library:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-$ c++ -I <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt> example.cpp -o example <strong>\</strong>
+$ c++ -I <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt> example.cpp -o example <strong>\</strong>
<strong>~/boost/stage/lib/libboost_regex-gcc34-mt-d-1_36.a</strong>
</pre>
</li>
<li><p class="first">You can separately specify a directory to search (with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-L</span></tt><em>directory</em>) and a library name to search for (with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-l</span></tt><em>library</em>,<a class="footnote-reference" href="#lowercase-l" id="id14"><sup>2</sup></a> dropping the filename's leading <tt class="docutils literal">lib</tt> and trailing
suffix (<tt class="docutils literal">.a</tt> in this case):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
-$ c++ -I <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_47_0</tt> example.cpp -o example <strong>\</strong>
+$ c++ -I <em>path/to/</em><tt class="docutils literal">boost_1_48_0</tt> example.cpp -o example <strong>\</strong>
<strong>-L~/boost/stage/lib/ -lboost_regex-gcc34-mt-d-1_36</strong>
</pre>
<p>As you can see, this method is just as terse as method A for one