<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Getting Started</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"> <link rel="home" href="../../index.html" title="The Boost C++ Libraries BoostBook Documentation Subset"> <link rel="up" href="../../boostbook.html" title="Chapter 30. The BoostBook Documentation Format"> <link rel="prev" href="../../boostbook.html" title="Chapter 30. The BoostBook Documentation Format"> <link rel="next" href="../documenting.html" title="Documenting libraries"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="../../boostbook.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../../boostbook.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="../documenting.html"><img src="../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="boostbook.getting.started"></a>Getting Started</h2></div></div></div> <div class="toc"><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.autounix">Automatic setup for Unix-like systems</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.manual">Manual setup for all systems</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.running">Running BoostBook</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></span></dt> </dl></div> <p>To use the Boost documentation tools, you will need several tools:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> <li class="listitem"> <p class="simpara"><span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span>:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle"> <li class="listitem">Windows with <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/" target="_top">Cygwin</a>: select the libxml2 and libxslt packages.</li> <li class="listitem">Windows without Cygwin: Download the <a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/" target="_top">binary packages</a> from Igor Zlatkovic. At the very least, you'll need iconv, zlib, libxml2 and libxslt.</li> <li class="listitem">Mac OS X with Fink: Get the <code class="computeroutput">libxslt</code> package.</li> <li class="listitem">Mac OS X without Fink: <a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html" target="_top">Download the libxslt binaries</a> </li> <li class="listitem">Any platform: <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/" target="_top">libxslt source</a>.</li> </ul></div> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p class="simpara"><span class="command"><strong>doxygen</strong></span>:</p> Available from <a href="http://www.doxygen.org" target="_top">http://www.doxygen.org</a> </li> </ul></div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.autounix"></a>Automatic setup for Unix-like systems</h3></div></div></div> <p>BoostBook provides a nearly-automatic setup script. Once you have downloaded and installed <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span>, <span class="command"><strong>doxygen</strong></span>, and (optionally) <span class="command"><strong>java</strong></span>, the setup script can download the required DocBook stylesheets, DocBook DTD, and (when Java is enabled) Apache FOP for PDF output. It will then configure Boost.Build version 2 to build BoostBook documentation.</p> <p>The script requires: <span class="command"><strong>sh</strong></span>, <span class="command"><strong>curl</strong></span> and <span class="command"><strong>gunzip</strong></span>. To perform the installation, execute the script <span class="command"><strong>tools/boostbook/setup_boostbook.sh</strong></span> from a directory where you would like the resulting XSL, DTD, and Apache FOP installations to occur. </p> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.manual"></a>Manual setup for all systems</h3></div></div></div> <div class="toc"><dl> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.xsltproc">Configuring <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span></a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.docbook">Configuring local DocBook XSL and DTD distributions</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.doxygen">Configuring Doxygen for Documentation Extraction</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="started.html#boostbook.setup.fop">Configuring Apache FOP</a></span></dt> </dl></div> <p>This section describes how to manually configure Boost Boost version 2 (BBv@) for BoostBook. If you can use the automatic setup script, you should. All configuration will happen in the BBv2 user configuration file, <code class="filename">user-config.jam</code>. If you do not have a copy of this file in your home directory, you should copy the one that resides in <code class="computeroutput">tools/build/v2</code> to your home directory. Alternatively, you can edit <code class="filename">tools/build/v2/user-config.jam</code> directly or a site-wide <code class="filename">site-config.jam</code> file.</p> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.xsltproc"></a>Configuring <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span> </h4></div></div></div> <p>To configure <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span> manually, you will need to add a directive to <code class="filename">user-config.jam</code> telling it where to find <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span>. If the program is in your path, just add the following line to <code class="filename">user-config.jam</code>:</p> <pre class="programlisting">using xsltproc ;</pre> <p>If <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span> is somewhere else, use this directive, where <code class="computeroutput">XSLTPROC</code> is the full pathname to <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span> (including <span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span>):</p> <pre class="programlisting">using xsltproc : XSLTPROC ;</pre> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.docbook"></a>Configuring local DocBook XSL and DTD distributions</h4></div></div></div> <p>This section describes how to configure Boost.Build to use local copies of the DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheets to improve processing time. You will first need to download two packages: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> <li class="listitem"><p>Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL stylesheets, available at the <a href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net" target="_top">DocBook sourceforge site</a>. Extract the DocBook XSL stylesheets to a directory on your hard disk (which we'll refer to as the <code class="computeroutput">DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR</code>).</p></li> <li class="listitem"><p>The DocBook DTD, available as a ZIP archive at the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/" target="_top">OASIS DocBook site</a>. The package is called "DocBook XML 4.2". Extract the DocBook DTD to a directory on your hard disk (which we'll refer to as the <code class="computeroutput">DOCBOOK_DTD_DIR</code>). You will want to extract this archive in a subdirectory!</p></li> </ul></div> <p> </p> <p>Add the following directive telling BBv2 where to find the DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheets:</p> <pre class="programlisting"># BoostBook configuration using boostbook : DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR : DOCBOOK_DTD_DIR ;</pre> <p>Whenever you change this directive, you will need to remove the <code class="computeroutput">bin.v2</code> directory that BBv2 generates. This is due to longstanding bug we are trying to fix.</p> <p>At this point, you should be able to build HTML documentation for libraries that do not require Doxygen. To test this, change into the directory <code class="filename">$BOOST_ROOT/libs/function/doc</code> and run the command <code class="computeroutput">bjam</code>: it should produce HTML documentation for the Boost.Function library in the <code class="computeroutput">html</code> subdirectory.</p> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.doxygen"></a>Configuring Doxygen for Documentation Extraction</h4></div></div></div> <p>Doxygen is required to build the documentation for several Boost libraries. You will need a recent version of <a href="http://www.doxygen.org" target="_top">Doxygen</a> (most of the 1.3.x and 1.4.x versions will suffice). BBv2 by adding the following directive to <code class="filename">user-config.jam</code>:</p> <pre class="programlisting">using doxygen : DOXYGEN ;</pre> <p><code class="filename">DOXYGEN</code> should be replaced with the name of the <span class="command"><strong>doxygen</strong></span> executable (with full path name). If the right <span class="command"><strong>doxygen</strong></span> executable can be found via the path, this parameter can be omitted, e.g.</p> <pre class="programlisting">using doxygen ;</pre> <div class="important"><table border="0" summary="Important"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Important]" src="../../../../doc/src/images/important.png"></td> <th align="left">Important</th> </tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>The relative order of declarations in <code class="filename">user-config.jam</code> / <code class="filename">site-config.jam</code> files is significant. In particular, the <code class="literal">using doxygen</code> line should come <span class="emphasis"><em>after</em></span> the <code class="literal">using boostbook</code> declaration. </p></td></tr> </table></div> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.fop"></a>Configuring Apache FOP</h4></div></div></div> <p>In order to generate PDF and PostScript output using Apache FOP, you will need a <a href="http://java.sun.com" target="_top">Java interpreter</a> and <a href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/download.html" target="_top">Apache FOP</a> (version 0.20.5 is best). Unpack Apache FOP to some directory. The top level directory of the FOP tool should contain a main script called <code class="filename">fop.sh</code> on Unix and <code class="filename">fop.bat</code> on Windows. You need to specify the location of that script and Java location to Boost.Build. Add the following to your <code class="filename">user-config.jam</code> or <code class="filename">site-config.jam</code>: </p> <pre class="programlisting"> using fop : FOP_COMMAND : JAVA_HOME ; </pre> <p> replacing <code class="computeroutput">FOP_COMMAND</code> with the full path to the FOP main script, and replacing <code class="computeroutput">JAVA_HOME</code> with the directory where Java is installed. If the <code class="envar">JAVA_HOME</code> environment variable is already set, you don't need to specify it above. </p> <p> Proper generation of images in PDFs depends on the <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/#" target="_top">Jimi Image Library</a>. To get FOP to use Jimi, extract the <code class="filename">JimiProClasses.zip</code> file from the Jimi SDK and rename it—if on Windows, to <code class="filename">jimi-1.0.jar</code>, or if on *nix, to <code class="filename">JimiProClasses.jar</code>—and place it in the <code class="filename">lib/</code> subdirectory of your FOP installation. </p> <p>To test PDF generation, switch to the directory <code class="filename">$BOOST_ROOT/libs/function/doc</code> and execute the command <span class="command"><strong>bjam pdf</strong></span>. In the absence of any errors, Apache FOP will be executed to transform the XSL:FO output of DocBook into a PDF file.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.running"></a>Running BoostBook</h3></div></div></div> <p>Once BoostBook has been configured, we can build some documentation. First, change to the directory <code class="computeroutput">$BOOST_ROOT/doc</code> and remove (or make writable) the <code class="computeroutput">.html</code> files in <code class="computeroutput">$BOOST_ROOT/doc/html</code>. Then, run <code class="computeroutput">bjam</code> to build HTML documentation. You should see several warnings like these while DocBook documentation is being built from BoostBook documentation:</p> <pre class="programlisting">Cannot find function named 'checked_delete' Cannot find function named 'checked_array_delete' Cannot find function named 'next'</pre> <p>These warnings are emitted when the Boost documentation tools cannot find documentation for functions, methods, or classes that are referenced in the source, and are not harmful in any way. Once Boost.Jam has completed its execution, HTML documentation for Boost will be available in <code class="computeroutput">$BOOST_ROOT/doc/html</code>. You can also create HTML documentation in a single (large!) HTML file with the command line <code class="computeroutput">bjam onehtml</code>, or Unix man pages with the command line <code class="computeroutput">bjam man</code>. The complete list of output formats is listed in <a class="xref" href="started.html#boostbook.output.formats" title="Table 30.1. BoostBook Output Formats">Table 30.1, “BoostBook Output Formats”</a>. Several output formats can be passed to a single invocation of <code class="computeroutput">bjam</code>, e.g., <code class="computeroutput">bjam html man docbook</code> would generate HTML (multiple files), man pages, and DocBook documentation.</p> <div class="table"> <a name="boostbook.output.formats"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 30.1. BoostBook Output Formats</b></p> <div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="BoostBook Output Formats"> <colgroup> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th>Format</th> <th>Description</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>html</td> <td><p>HTML output (multiple files). This is the default</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>onehtml</td> <td><p>HTML output in a single HTML file.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>man</td> <td><p>Unix man pages.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>pdf</td> <td><p>PDF. Requires <a href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html" target="_top">Apache FOP</a>.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>ps</td> <td><p>Postscript. Requires <a href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html" target="_top">Apache FOP</a>.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td>docbook</td> <td> <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>fo</td> <td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/" target="_top">XSL Formatting Objects</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> </div> <br class="table-break"> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="boostbook.setup.troubleshooting"></a>Troubleshooting</h3></div></div></div> <p>The Boost documentation tools are still in their early phase of development, and some things don't work as seamlessly as we would like them to, yet. In particular, error messages can be somewhat uninformative at times. If you find yourself in the situation when you have double checked everything, and yet things still don't work as expected, consider helping the tools by deleting <code class="literal">bin.v2</code> build directory. </p> </div> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2003-2005 Douglas Gregor<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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