I am a command-line user of C++ and boost. I installed boost on Mac Leopard using mac ports like this: sudo port install boost I saw as it installed that macports was using bjam, and the version was 1.37. I want to use boost/regex.hpp, so I know it's not just a matter of including a header file. When I compile my own source files, I see a variety of paths, such as /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/boost /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/boost/files etc My first question is, when I compile my work on command line using g++: i.e., g++ myfile.cpp -o myfile which of these paths should I include? I think I am supposed to do something like g++ -I /path/to/boost myfile.cpp -o myfile but I do not understand how a person knows which dir to use. Another way of asking this is: If YOU sat down at my machine and decided to use boost, what would you do to a)find it and b)include it in your pre-processor includes? Is there clear documentation on how a fellow figures out where the install is located, and then shows how to include it? Perhaps I simply don't know what to ask for, but when I google for this I gfind a zillion unrelated things. Do I in fact need to do the "-I /silly/long/path/to/the/bowels/of/the/machine/where/macports/hid/buried/installed/boost" every single time I compile something?? It occured to me to try a soft link somewhere in my development dir to save typing, but in order to do that of course I first need to figure out where boost actually resides in the system. I also have fink installed on the system, and fink says that boost1.33 is installed. So how in the world do I update fink to accept a later version? When I try to update, fink says no update is needed. Thanks in advance for the hand-holding. Boost is worth the effort to figure it out, yes? -- John Burgoon Development Staff, GiveALink.org Informatics 304 812-856-1833 office 812-391-2428 cell --

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