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1 | .. Copyright David Abrahams 2006. Distributed under the Boost | |
2 | .. Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying | |
3 | .. file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) | |
4 | ||
5 | ============================ | |
6 | |(logo)|__ Getting Started | |
7 | ============================ | |
8 | ||
9 | .. |(logo)| image:: ../../boost.png | |
10 | :alt: Boost | |
11 | :class: boost-logo | |
12 | ||
13 | __ ../../index.htm | |
14 | ||
15 | .. Admonition:: Use the latest version of this Getting Started guide | |
16 | ||
17 | The `Boost website version of this Getting Started guide`_ may | |
18 | have updated information, such as the location of additional installers | |
19 | or improved installation procedures, so you might want use that version | |
20 | if you've got an Internet connection available. | |
21 | ||
22 | .. _`Boost website version of this Getting Started guide`: | |
23 | http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/index.html | |
24 | ||
25 | Welcome | |
26 | ------- | |
27 | ||
28 | Welcome to the Boost libraries! By the time you've completed this | |
29 | tutorial, you'll be at least somewhat comfortable with the contents | |
30 | of a Boost distribution and how to go about using it. | |
31 | ||
32 | What's Here | |
33 | ----------- | |
34 | ||
35 | This document is designed to be an *extremely* gentle introduction, | |
36 | so we included a fair amount of material that may already be very | |
37 | familiar to you. To keep things simple, we also left out some | |
38 | information intermediate and advanced users will probably want. At | |
39 | the end of this document, we'll refer you on to resources that can | |
40 | help you pursue these topics further. | |
41 | ||
42 | Preliminaries | |
43 | ------------- | |
44 | ||
45 | We use one typographic convention that might not be immediately | |
46 | obvious: *italic* text in examples is meant as a descriptive | |
47 | placeholder for something else, usually information that you'll | |
48 | provide. For example: | |
49 | ||
50 | .. parsed-literal:: | |
51 | ||
52 | **$** echo "My name is *your name*\ " | |
53 | ||
54 | Here you're expected to imagine replacing the text “your name” with | |
55 | your actual name. | |
56 | ||
57 | Ready? | |
58 | ------ | |
59 | ||
60 | Let's go! | |
61 | ||
62 | .. footer:: | |
63 | .. class:: nextpage | |
64 | ||
65 | | **Next:** `Getting Started on Microsoft Windows`__ | |
66 | | **or:** `Getting Started on Unix variants (e.g. Linux, MacOS)`__ | |
67 | ||
68 | __ windows.html | |
69 | __ unix-variants.html | |
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