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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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<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</a> or <a href="#Browser">browser</a> access
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to Boost's CVS repository.</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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<h3><a name="CVS">CVS</a> command line access</h3>
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For those who have CVS installed, the libraries are also available
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from the public CVS repository. The general procedure for
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command-line clients is something like this:
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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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<br>
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[Hit <return> when it asks for a password]
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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>CVS <a name="Browser">Browser</a> access via WebCVS</h3>
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For access to the CVS archive from any modern web browser, you can also use the <a 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 how a file
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has changed over time.
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<h2><a name="Installation">Installation</a></h2>
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Many boost libraries are implemented entirely within their header
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files. The only preparation for their use is to add the path for the
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parent directory of the boost headers sub-directory to your compiler's
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list of <code>#include</code> search directories.
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<p>
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For example, using Windows 2000, if you have unzipped release 1.20.2
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from boost_all.zip into the top level directory of your C drive, for
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Borland, GCC, and Metrowerks compilers add '-Ic:/boost_1_20_2' to the
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compiler command line, and for the Microsoft compiler add '/I
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"c:/boost_1_20_2"'. For IDE's, add 'c:/boost_1_20_2' (or whatever you
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have renamed it to) to the search list using the appropriate GUI
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dialog.
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<p>
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Some Boost libraries are implemented as separate source files, and
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thus require compilation into object libraries before any use. See <a href="../tools/build/index.html">Building
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Boost Libraries</a> for an automatic tool to prepare such libraries.
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Some of the individual libraries also include make and/or project files
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for various compilers, but these will become obsolete as Boost.Build matures..
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<p>
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Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->24 September, 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39337" -->
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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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