documentation suggestions for Getting Started section

Ed Beroset <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I just recently changed computers and had to set up compilers and libraries from
scratch on a Windows 7 box (I'm more used to Linux).  When I did so, I found the
page
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#build-a-simple-program-using-boost
quite helpful, but had a few small suggestions for improvements.

First, the sample program that links to a boost library has what appears to be a
minor typo.  In the program
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#link-your-program-to-a-boost-library
here, the regex looks for (Re: |Aw: )* but, given the context, I'd have expected
(Re: |Fw: )* instead.  It's a very minor point, but makes the purpose a little
more clear.

Second, a word on compiling 64-bit versions of boost under Windows would be
helpful.  After a bit of searching, I learned that in order to build them I
could use the command line:  b2 address-model=64 --build-type=complete install
A mention of that on the getting started page may help someone else avoid
head-scratching LNK2019 linker errors when using the 64-bit version of the MSVC
compiler.

Hope that's useful, and thanks for the excellent library.

Ed
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