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 25Welcome 26------- 27 28Welcome to the Boost libraries! By the time you've completed this 29tutorial, you'll be at least somewhat comfortable with the contents 30of a Boost distribution and how to go about using it. 31 32What's Here 33----------- 34 35This document is designed to be an *extremely* gentle introduction, 36so we included a fair amount of material that may already be very 37familiar to you. To keep things simple, we also left out some 38information intermediate and advanced users will probably want. At 39the end of this document, we'll refer you on to resources that can 40help you pursue these topics further. 41 42Preliminaries 43------------- 44 45We use one typographic convention that might not be immediately 46obvious: *italic* text in examples is meant as a descriptive 47placeholder for something else, usually information that you'll 48provide. For example: 49 50.. parsed-literal:: 51 52 **$** echo "My name is *your name*\ " 53 54Here you're expected to imagine replacing the text “your name” with 55your actual name. 56 57Ready? 58------ 59 60Let'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 70 71
