Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need to know?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Abrahams wrote:

Evan Carew writes:

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As luck would have it, in my case, I was able to find some decent documentation outside of boost's web site which did an excellent job of describing the library I had a question about & my problem was solved the same night. I have a feeling that's how a not insubstantial fraction of frustrated querys end up getting resolved, that, or they simply end up getting dropped. I really do hope You manage to give Mr. Bourdenas something useful in his quest to compile python extensions with the more common infrastructure (libtools),

Check the thread again. He's using Visual Studio.

I hope to be able to provide Visual Studio project files in the future, but right now I don't have time to produce such a thing for the project.

I have a feeling that everyone reading the thread got that point. I also suspect many of us also realize libtool & MS Win work just fine together as well (even if most of said use is under cygwin).

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or to at least provide enough information for him to feel comfortable with bjam,

I'd be happy to; he should bring his Boost.Build questions to the boost-build list if possible.

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however, should your help not be quite what he is looking for, I hope he can find the Perforce-jam tools manuals still on-line from a decade ago when they were more popular.

That won't help much. Perforce Jam is an almost entirely different beast from Boost.Build.

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P.S. Mr. Bourdenas, if you are listening, the old manuals are indeed still on-line and can be found at http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html

No offense intended to Mr. Carew, but you'll be doing yourself a favor if you ignore that advice. Perforce Jam is mostly irrelevant and most people who look at it expecting to be helped with Boost.Build end up very confused.

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