Hi everybody, I'm quite new to boost, and wondering how best to install it under linux with GCC. I have no problem getting it to compile and run, but with all the .a files hidden away in huge directory trees, and the include files hidden several layers deep, I'm wondering what people have done to make the whole lot more accessible - and easy to manage.
E.g. at the moment, I have to add horrendously long -L commands with GCC to each library I want to link to, and if I want to avoid linking to the libraries by using the 'inline' headers* I can't seem to move the headers out of the boost installation tree, as they use relative paths to cpp files in the lib directory. At the moment I'm thinking of creating a /usr/local/boost director, or some such, and creating symlinks to all the static library files in /usr/local/lib - but doing all that is going to be a royal PITA! What have other people that works better? How do you manage the complex directory structure? Thanks in advance for any help, and I apologise if this question is a bit vague and fluffy - I guess I'm really looking for some practices that will make it easy for me to refer to different libraries in Boost in different projects I'm working on. Cheers, Christo *I'm not sure if this is the correct terminology, maybe it's 'offline'? - apologies if I got it wrong :-) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
