1Installation 2============ 3 4The latest version of GIL can be downloaded from https://github.com/boostorg/gil. 5 6The GIL is a header-only library. Meaning, it consists of header files only, 7it does not require Boost to be built and it does not require any libraries 8to link against. 9 10.. note:: 11 12 The exception to dependencies-free rule of GIL is the I/O extension 13 which requires client libraries implementing popular image formats 14 like libpng, libjpeg, etc. 15 16In order to use GIL, including ``boost/gil.hpp`` and telling your compiler 17where to find Boost and GIL headers should be sufficient for most projects. 18