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| |(logo)|__ Getting Started |
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| .. Admonition:: Use the latest version of this Getting Started guide |
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| The `Boost website version of this Getting Started guide`_ may |
| have updated information, such as the location of additional installers |
| or improved installation procedures, so you might want use that version |
| if you've got an Internet connection available. |
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| .. _`Boost website version of this Getting Started guide`: |
| http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html |
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| Welcome |
| ------- |
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| Welcome to the Boost libraries! By the time you've completed this |
| tutorial, you'll be at least somewhat comfortable with the contents |
| of a Boost distribution and how to go about using it. |
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| What's Here |
| ----------- |
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| This document is designed to be an *extremely* gentle introduction, |
| so we included a fair amount of material that may already be very |
| familiar to you. To keep things simple, we also left out some |
| information intermediate and advanced users will probably want. At |
| the end of this document, we'll refer you on to resources that can |
| help you pursue these topics further. |
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| Preliminaries |
| ------------- |
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| We use one typographic convention that might not be immediately |
| obvious: *italic* text in examples is meant as a descriptive |
| placeholder for something else, usually information that you'll |
| provide. For example: |
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| .. parsed-literal:: |
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| **$** echo "My name is *your name*\ " |
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| Here you're expected to imagine replacing the text “your name” with |
| your actual name. |
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| Ready? |
| ------ |
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| Let's go! |
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| .. footer:: |
| .. class:: nextpage |
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| | **Next:** `Getting Started on Microsoft Windows`__ |
| | **or:** `Getting Started on Unix variants (e.g. Linux, MacOS)`__ |
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| __ windows.html |
| __ unix-variants.html |
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