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<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Boost.Build is an easy way to build C++ projects, everywhere. You
name you executables and libraries and list their sources. Boost.Build
takes care about compiling your sources with right options, creating
static and shared libraries, making executables, and other chores --
whether you're using gcc, msvc, or a dozen more supported C++
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<li><b>Simple and high level build description</b>. In most
cases a name of target and list of sources is all you need.</li>
<li><b>Portability</b>. Most important build properties have symbolic
names that work everywhere. Why memorize compiler flags necessary
for multi-threaded 64-bit shared library, if Boost.Build can do it for you?
<li><b>Variant builds</b>. When you build the same project
twice with different properties, all produced files are placed
in different directories, so you can build with 2 versions of
gcc, or both debug and release variants in one invocation.</li>
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in, Boost.Build will always check all dependencies in your entire
project, preventing inconsistent binaries. And it's easy to
use one Boost.Build project in other, again with full dependency
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<p>Boost.Build is ready to use today, and new features are being actively
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<p>The current version of 2.0 Milestone 12, which added support for
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