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Boost instructions #30

Closed ms609 closed 1 month ago

ms609 commented 2 months ago

As a CMake novice, I encountered some difficulties relating to Boost whilst installing RevBayes from source.

These additions document my travails, which I hope will assist future users. Perhaps an expert might spot steps that are redundant, or more efficient troubleshooting guidelines!

I've also added a direct link to the Windows compliation instructions, as I didn't find these instructions straight away, and they were helpful when I did.

bredelings commented 2 months ago

Hi Martin,

Thanks for these improvements! Let me check first with some developers who use windows (I do not) about how they handle these things.

One possibility is that people are downloading the BOOST libraries from the mingw repositories at http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/.

-BenRI

ms609 commented 2 months ago

Great - the mingw repos look like they could be a much simpler route!

bjoelle commented 1 month ago

@bredelings is this fine for merging or do you want to do some more checks ?

bredelings commented 1 month ago

I was initially concerned that we were describing how to install BOOST in multiple places. But the instructions are probably a bit different for windows.

Let's merge this now. We can tweak it later if necessary.

Thanks @ms609 !