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[Lindley M French <>]

Tried that, it didn't work. Since the compile error said it couldn't find 
boost/version.hpp, I set the incl dir to be '...../boost_1_34_1', since 
'boost/version.hpp' exists under that. Same error list anyway.

The install_cgal program did say it was setting the include directory, though.

It mentions in several places that "If you put Boost in the standard 
directory, it will be found automatically", but doesn't say what that 
directory should be anywhere. What is it?

Oh, and it's counterintuitive for the install instructions to give an example 
of setting the Boost include dir to "...../boost/include", when the Boost 
download doesn't come with an /include directory.

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurent Rineau 
<>
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2007 5:54 am
Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Install script doesn't detect Boost

> On Sunday 23 September 2007 07:11:59 Lindley M French wrote:
> > I'm attempting to compile CGAL, but it's not detecting Boost for 
> some> reason.
> >
> > http://www.cgal.org/platforms.html indicates that Boost doesn't 
> have to be
> > compiled; good thing, too, because I don't have the extra gigabytes
> > necessary for that monster. It also says I need to set the BOOSTROOT
> > environment variable, which I've done.
> 
> The use of BOOSTROOT is for Windows platforms only, if the Windows 
> installer. 
> As you use install_cgal (on MacOS X), you need to call install_cgal 
> like 
> that:
> 
> ./install_cgal --BOOST_INCL_DIR 
> /Developer/Headers/boost_1_34_1/include/
> (if Boost headers are in sub-directory include/ of BOOSTROOT.)
> 
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