documentation suggestions for Getting Started section
Ed Beroset <[email protected]>
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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