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Installation
- This section describes how to install Boost.Build from a
- released Boost
- source distribution
- or CVS
- image.
-
- Note that packages prepared for
- Unix/Linux systems usually make their own choices about where to
- put things and even which parts of Boost to include. When we
- say “released source distribution” we mean a
- distribution of Boost as released on its SourceForge
- project
- page.
-
-
-All paths are given relative to
- the Boost.Build v2 root directory, which is
-
-
-
-
-
- located in the tools/build/v2 subdirectory
- of a full Boost distribution.
-
- The Boost.Build subset of boost is also distributed
- separately, for those who are only interested in getting a
- build tool. The top-level directory of a Boost.Build
- distribution contains all the subdirectories of the
- tools/build/v2 subdirectory from a full
- Boost distribution, so it is itself a valid Boost.Build root
- directory. It also contains the
- tools/jam/src subdirectory of a
- full Boost distribution, so you can rebuild Boost.Jam from
- source.
-
-
+ To install Boost.Build from an official release or a nightly build, as
+ available on the official web site,
+ follow these steps:
- Boost.Build uses Boost.Jam, an
- extension of the Perforce
- Jam portable make replacement. The
- recommended way to get Boost.Jam is to download
- a prebuilt executable from SourceForge.
- If a prebuilt executable is not provided for your platform
- or you are using Boost's sources in an unreleased state, it
- may be necessary to
- build bjam
- from sources included in the Boost source tree.
+ Unpack the release. On the command line, go to the root of the
+ unpacked tree.
-
-
- To install Boost.Jam, copy the executable,
- called bjam
- or bjam.exe to a location accessible in
- your PATH. Go to the Boost.Build root
- directory and
- run bjam . You
- should see:
-
-
- Boost.Build V2 (Milestone N)
- Boost.Jam xx.xx.xx
-
-
- where N is the version of Boost.Build you're using.
-
+
+ Run either .\bootstrap.bat (on Windows), or
+ ./bootstrap.sh (on other operating systmes).
+
+ Run
+
+./bjam install --prefix=PREFIX
+
+ where PREFIX is a directory where you
+ want Boost.Build to be installed.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Optionally, add PREFIX/bin
+ to your PATH environment variable.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Now that Boost.Build is installed, you can try some of examples. Copy
+ PREFIX/share/boost-build/examples/hello
+ to a different directory, then change to that directory and run:
+
+PREFIX/bin/bjam
+
+ A simple executable should be build.
+
+
+
-
-
- You should now be able to go to the
- example/hello/ directory and run
- bjam there. A simple application will be
- built. You can also play with other projects in the
- example/ directory.
-
-
-
-
- If you are using Boost's CVS state, be sure to
- rebuild bjam even if you have a previous
- version. The CVS version of Boost.Build requires the CVS
- version of Boost.Jam.
-
-
-
- When bjam is invoked, it always needs to be
- able to find the Boost.Build root directory, where the
- interpreted source code of Boost.Build is located. There are
- two ways to tell bjam about the root directory:
-
-
-
-
-
- Set the environment variable BOOST_BUILD_PATH
- to the absolute path of the Boost.Build root directory.
-
-
-
-
-
- At the root directory of your project or in any of its
- parent directories, create a file called
- boost-build.jam, with a single line:
-
-
-boost-build /path/to/boost.build ;
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Information for distributors
+
+