Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista(FOR WINDOWS BOOSTING)

Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista

Section contributed by Julio M. Merino Vidal

The following instructions apply to any Windows system based on Windows 2000, including Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista. The paths shown below are taken from a Windows Vista machine; you will need to adjust them to match your system in case you are running an older version.

1. First of all you need to have a copy of xsltproc for Windows. There are many ways to get this tool, but to keep things simple, use the binary packages made by Igor Zlatkovic. At the very least, you need to download the following packages: iconv, zlib, libxml2 and libxslt.
2. Unpack all these packages in the same directory so that you get unique bin, include and lib directories within the hierarchy. These instructions use C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml as the root for all files.
3. From the command line, go to the bin directory and launch xsltproc.exe to ensure it works. You should get usage information on screen.
4. Download Docbook XML 4.2 and unpack it in the same directory used above. That is: C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml\docbook-xml.
5. Download the latest Docbook XSL version and unpack it, again in the same directory used before. Be careful that you download the correct file, sometimes the 'looking for the latest version' link often links to another file. The name should be of the form docbook-xsl-1.nn.n.tar.bz2, with no suffix such as -ns.tar.bz2 or -doc.tar.bz2. To make things easier, rename the directory created during the extraction to docbook-xsl (bypassing the version name): C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml\docbook-xsl.
6. Add the following to your user-config.jam file, which should live in your home directory (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%). You must already have it somewhere or otherwise you could not be building Boost (i.e. missing tools configuration).

using xsltproc
    : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/bin/xsltproc.exe"
    ;

using boostbook
    : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/docbook-xsl"
    : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/docbook-xml"
    ;

The above steps are enough to get a functional BoostBook setup. Quickbook will be automatically built when needed. If you want to avoid these rebuilds:

1. Go to Quickbook's source directory (BOOST_ROOT\tools\quickbook).
2. Build the utility by issuing bjam.
3. Copy the resulting quickbook.exe binary (located at BOOST_ROOT\dist\bin) to a safe place. Following our previous example, you can install it into: C:\Users\example\Documents\boost\xml\bin.
4. Add the following to your user-config.jam file:

   using quickbook
       : "C:/Users/example/Documents/boost/xml/bin/quickbook.exe"
       ;