Section contributed by Julio M. Merino Vidal
The following instructions apply to any Windows system based on Windows 2000,
including Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista. The paths shown
below are taken from a Windows Vista machine; you will need to adjust them
to match your system in case you are running an older version.
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First of all you need to have a copy of xsltproc
for Windows. There are many ways to get this tool, but to keep things simple,
use the binary packages
made by Igor Zlatkovic. At the very least, you need to download the following
packages: iconv, zlib, libxml2
and libxslt.
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Unpack all these packages in the same directory so that you get unique
bin, include
and lib directories within
the hierarchy. These instructions use C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml
as the root for all files.
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From the command line, go to the bin
directory and launch xsltproc.exe
to ensure it works. You should get usage information on screen.
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Download Docbook
XML 4.2 and unpack it in the same directory used above. That is:
C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml\docbook-xml.
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Download the latest Docbook
XSL version and unpack it, again in the same directory used before.
To make things easier, rename the directory created during the extraction
to docbook-xsl (bypassing the version name): C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml\docbook-xsl.
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Add the following to your user-config.jam
file, which should live in your home directory (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%).
You must already have it somewhere or otherwise you could not be building
Boost (i.e. missing tools configuration).
using xsltproc
: "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/bin/xsltproc.exe"
;
using boostbook
: "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/docbook-xsl"
: "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/docbook-xml"
;
The above steps are enough to get a functional BoostBook setup. Quickbook
will be automatically built when needed. If you want to avoid these rebuilds:
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Go to Quickbook's source directory (BOOST_ROOT\tools\quickbook).
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Build the utility by issuing bjam
--v2.
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Copy the resulting quickbook.exe
binary (located under the BOOST_ROOT\bin.v2 hierarchy)
to a safe place. Following our previous example, you can install it into:
C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml\bin.
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Add the following to your user-config.jam
file:
using quickbook
: "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/bin/quickbook.exe"
;
Boost
C++ Libraries
