Comments on: How to Test C++ Boost Installation

By: John Burgoon

John Burgoon — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:28:21 +0000

Thanks for these excellent tutorials. May I suggest a tutorial? Walking someone _carefully_ through the Boost installation process would be marvelous. I am trying to install Boost on Mac OSX Leopard, and although I am doing the builds and getting results, I realize I am new enough to C++ that I am not confident in doing things that most tutorials assume I can do, such as linking a library, or making sure that paths are set correctly. I understand the concepts, but the actual syntax, what a program looks like, and what failure looks like are very very helpful. For example, your second example above shows linking in C++.

You might smile, but to someone who doesn’t know what to ask, Googling “linking C++” only causes the overwhelming feeling of despair. Your examples have helped me tremendously, and I encourage you to write some more. The best one to add to this tutorial would be the “ELSE” part of your statement above: “IF the above two programs build and run with out any problems, then boost is installed and working properly on your system…”

Thanks again for your excellent work!
John

By: tabrez

tabrez — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:25:34 +0000

JOanzi,
Thanks.

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By: JOanzi

JOanzi — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:14:20 +0000

Thanks – the article was very helpful!

(I think comment #1 may have gotten “eaten” – perhaps it referred to the examples folders and Jamfile included with the distribution?)

Please keep up the good work!

By: Every Flavour Beans » Installing C++ Boost on SuSE and Fedora

Every Flavour Beans » Installing C++ Boost on SuSE and Fedora — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:47:22 +0000

[...] You can now test the boost installation by compiling the two programs I had mentioned in my earlier post, using the following commands: [...]