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<h1>Boost Download and Installation</h1>
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The boost libraries are intended for easy download and <a href="#Installation">installation</a>;
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many libraries require nothing more that downloading and unpacking to be ready
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for use, including full documentation. When required, see <a href="../tools/build/index.html">Building
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Boost Libraries</a> to create object libraries.
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<h2>Download</h2>
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The boost libraries are available in various formats:
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<li><a href="http://boost.sourceforge.net/release/">HTTP download</a> all of Boost as a single archive
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file (<a href="#.zip">.zip</a> or <a href="#.tar.gz">.tar.gz</a>) file from our
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SourceForge HTTP site. Older versions also available. (This option is
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suggested first since it doesn't count against our web site host's monthly
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fee.)</li>
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<li><a href="../boost_all.zip">ZIP download</a> all of Boost as a single archive
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file from our web site.</li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../boost_all.tar.gz">TAR.GZ download</a> all of Boost as a single archive
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file from our web site.</li>
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<li><a href="#CVS">Command line, GUI</a>, or <a href="#Browser">browser</a> access
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to Boost's <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7586">CVS repository</a>.</li>
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<li>Download individual files from links in the documentation on the web
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site. Because of the number of files involved, and <a href="../libs/hdr_depend.html">header
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dependencies</a>, this option usually isn't very useful.</li>
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<h3><a name=".zip">.zip</a> file</h3>
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The .zip format is widely supported by both free decoders and
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commercial compress/archive utilities. If you don't already have a
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.zip file decoder, download one from the
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<a href="http://www.info-zip.org/">Info-ZIP</a>
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web site, which supplies versions for many operating systems.
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<p>
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Text file line endings in the .zip file are as supplied by each library
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developer. This works fine for Windows, but not for Unix/Linux. The
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.tar.gz file supplies Unix/Linux friendly line endings.
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<h3><a name=".tar.gz">.tar.gz</a> file</h3>
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The .tar.gz format is widely supported on Unix/Linux platforms. Some
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Windows compress/archive utilities can read the format as well. Because
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the gzip format compresses the archive as a single file rather than compressing
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each file individually, the .tar.gz file is smaller that the .zip file.
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<p>Text file line endings in the .tar.gz file have been converted to newlines
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for ease of use on Unix/Linux platforms.</p>
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<h2>Boost <a name="CVS">CVS</a> Repository</h2>
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<p>All Boost files, including the entire distribution tree including web site
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HTML is maintained in a CVS repository.</p>
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<h3>Boost CVS access via command line or graphical clients</h3>
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For those who have CVS clients installed, the libraries are also available from
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the public <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7586">Boost CVS
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repository</a>. Free command line clients (often already installed on Linux/Unix
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systems) are available at the <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS home page</a>,
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and free GUI clients are also available for Windows, Mac, and other systems from
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<a href="http://www.cvsgui.org/">CvsGui.org</a>.<p>The general procedure for
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command-line clients is something like this: </p>
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<blockquote>
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<code>
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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost login
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</code>
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[Hit <return> when it asks for a password]
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<br>
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<code>
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cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost checkout boost
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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost logout
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</code>
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</blockquote>
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Read the manual for your CVS client for further information.
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<p>
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This access is read-only; if you are a library author and wish to have
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CVS write access, please contact one of the
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<a href="mailto:boost-owner@yahoogroups.com">moderators</a>.
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<h3>Boost CVS access via web <a name="Browser">Browser</a></h3>
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For access to the CVS archive from any modern web browser, you can
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also use the <a
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href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/boost/boost/">web
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browser interface</a>. Try one of the color diffs to see
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how a file has changed over time.
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<h2><a name="Installation">Installation</a></h2>
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Boost does not yet have a standardized installation process. There has
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been some interest in developing one; as of this writing <a
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href="../people/william_kempf.htm">Bill Kempf</a> has volunteered to
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coordinate and is gathering volunteers. If you have expertise in this
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area (particularly cross-platform expertise), and you would like to
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contribute, please announce your availability on the
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<a
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href="http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-install">Boost
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Install</a> mailing list.
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<p>
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That said, preparing to use Boost in a development project is
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relatively straightforward. Most boost libraries are implemented
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entirely within their header files. The only preparation for their
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use is to add the boost root directory to your compiler's list of
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<code>#include<...></code> search paths. For example,
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using Windows 2000, if you have unzipped release 1.28.0 from
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boost_all.zip into the top level directory of your C drive, adding
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'-Ic:/boost_1_28_0' to the command line of most compilers is
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sufficient.
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<p>
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The <a href="../libs/python/doc/index.html">Python</a>, <a
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href="../libs/regex/index.htm">Regex</a>, and <a
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href="../libs/thread/doc/index.html">Threads</a> libraries are
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implemented in part as separate source files, and thus require
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compilation before use. See <a
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href="../tools/build/index.html">Building Boost Libraries</a> for an
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automatic tool to prepare such libraries. Some of the individual
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libraries also include make and/or project files for various
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compilers, but every library also
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<p>
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Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->06 August, 2002<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="34416" -->
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<p>Written by <a href="../people/jens_maurer.htm">Jens Maurer</a>
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2001-02-11</p>
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