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Boost Download and Installation

The boost libraries are intended for easy download and installation. @@ -28,21 +26,22 @@ configuration tool.

Download

The boost libraries are available in various formats. Most of the files are available through links from the individual library's -documentation. As many boost headers include other boost headers, -installing one at a time is painful. Therefore, archive formats have -been prepared which contain all of boost in a single file. +documentation. Since many boost headers include other boost headers, +installing one at a time is painful.  Downloading all of Boost as a single archive +file (.zip or .tar.gz)  is a lot easier.  CVS access is also +available. -

ZIP file

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.zip file

The .zip format is widely supported by both free decoders and -commercial commpress/archive utilities. If you don't already have a +commercial compress/archive utilities. If you don't already have a .zip file decoder, download one from the Info-ZIP -web site. +web site, which supplies versions for many operating systems.

-Unix/Linux hints: boost_all.zip is built on a Win32 platform, so the -line endings are wrong for Unix/Linux. Use the -a option when -unzipping with InfoZip for Unix/Linux friendly line endings. +Text file line endings in the .zip file are as supplied by each library +developer.  This works fine for Windows, but not for Unix/Linux.  The +.tar.gz file supplies Unix/Linux friendly line endings.