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- <h1>Boost Libraries</h1>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="array/index.htm">array</a> - STL compliant
- container wrapper for arrays of constant size from
- Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
- <li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
- Defines types for passing parameters from John Maddock,
- Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
- <li><a href="compose/index.htm">compose</a> - Functional
- composition adapters for the STL from Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
- <li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
- - Empty member optimization from John Maddock, Howard
- Hinnant, et al.</li>
- <li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a> - Tools for
- generic programming from Jeremy Siek.</li>
- <li><a href="config/index.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
- library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
- intended for library users.</li>
- <li><a href="conversion/index.htm">conversion</a> - Numeric, polymorphic,
- and lexical casts from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.</li>
- <li><a href="dir_it/index.htm">dir_it</a> - A set of file
- system directory level iterators from Dietmar Kühl.</li>
- <li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
- function object adaptors from Mark Rodgers.</li>
- <li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
- Generic graph components and algorithms from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
- <li><a href="integer/index.htm">integer</a> - Headers to ease
- dealing with integral types.</li>
- <li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
- ease arithmetic classes and iterators from Dave Abrahams
- and Jeremy Siek.</li>
- <li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a> - Concepts
- defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects from Jeremy
- Siek.</li>
- <li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - reflects C++ classes and
- functions into <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
- Abrahams.</li>
- <li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
- system for random number generation from Jens Maurer.</li>
- <li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
- number class from Paul Moore.</li>
- <li><a href="regex/index.htm">regex</a> - Regular expression
- library from John Maddock.</li>
- <li><a href="smart_ptr/index.htm">smart_ptr</a> - Four smart
- pointer classes from Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes.</li>
- <li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
- - static assertions (compile time assertions) from
- John Maddock.</li>
- <li><a href="timer/index.htm">timer</a> - Event timer,
- progress timer, and progress display classes from Beman
- Dawes.</li>
- <li><a href="utility/type_traits.htm">type_traits</a> -
- Templates for fundamental properties of types from John
- Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
- <li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
- plus <b>next(),</b> <b>prior(),</b> and <b>tie()</b>
- function templates from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
- </ul>
- <p>See <a href="../status/compiler_status.html">Compiler Status</a> to find
- out what library works with which compiler.</p>
- <p>See <a href="hdr_depend.html">Header Dependencies</a> to find
- out what other headers each boost header includes.</p>
- <h2>Obsolete Libraries</h2>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="min_rand/index.htm">min_rand</a> - a random
- number generator class from Beman Dawes. Replaced by <a
- href="random/index.html">random</a>.</li>
- </ul>
- <h2>Beta Libraries</h2>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="array_traits/index.html">array_traits</a> -
- tools to treat built-in arrays more like STL containers
- from Dietmar Kühl. Also see <a href="array/index.htm">array</a>.</li>
- <li><a href="pri_queue/index.html">heaps</a> - a heap of
- priority queues from Dietmar Kühl.</li>
- </ul>
- <h2><a name="Download">Download</a></h2>
- <h3>.zip file</h3>
- <p>You may <a href="../boost_all.zip">download all of boost</a>
- as a single boost_all.zip file. As many boost headers
- include other boost headers, installing one at at time is painful.
- This is a first try at making installation easier.</p>
- <p>If you don't already have a .zip file decoder, download one
- from the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/">Info-ZIP</a>
- web site. The .zip format is used for distribution because there
- are free decoders and encoders available for many, many different
- platforms. Many commercial compress/archive utilities also
- support this format.</p>
- <p>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. Also note that a Linux user reports his decoder
- required renaming boost_all.zip
- to boost_all.ZIP.</p>
- <h3>CVS archive</h3>
- <p>For those who have CVS installed, the libraries can also be
- downloaded from the public CVS repository. The general procedure
- goes something like this:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <pre>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost login
- [Hit <return> when it asks for a password]
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost checkout boost
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost logout</pre>
- </blockquote>
- <h2>Installing Boost Libraries</h2>
- <p>Many boost libraries are implemented entirely within their
- header files. The only preparation for their use is to add
- the path for the parent directory of the boost header sub-directory
- to your compiler's list of #include search directories.</p>
- <blockquote>
- <p>For example, using Windows 2000, if you have unzipped
- release 1.18.1 from boost_all.zip into the top level
- directory of your C drive, for Borland, GCC, and Metrowerks
- compilers add '-Ic:/boost_1_18_1' to the compiler command
- line, and for the Microsoft compiler add '/I "c:/boost_1_18_1"'.
- For IDE's, add 'c:/boost_1_18_1' (or whatever you have
- renamed it to) to the search list using the appropriate GUI
- dialog.</p>
- </blockquote>
- <p>A few boost libraries are implemented by separate source files,
- and thus require compilation on your system to link properly.
- Boost does not currently have an overall "build" or
- "make" mechanism in place. Some of the individual libraries do include
- make and/or project files for various compilers.</p>
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- <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
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