To configure xsltproc manually, you will need to add a directive to user-config.jam telling it where to find xsltproc. If the program is in your path, just add the following line to user-config.jam:

using xsltproc ;

If xsltproc is somewhere else, use this directive, where XSLTPROC is the full pathname to xsltproc (including xsltproc):

using xsltproc : XSLTPROC ;

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:

Add the following directive telling BBv2 where to find the DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheets:

#  BoostBook configuration
using boostbook 
  : DOCBOOK_XSL_DIR
  : DOCBOOK_DTD_DIR
  ;

Whenever you change this directive, you will need to remove the bin.v2 directory that BBv2 generates. This is due to longstanding bug we are trying to fix.

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 $BOOST_ROOT/libs/function/doc and run the command bjam --v2: it should produce HTML documentation for the Boost.Function library in the html subdirectory.

Doxygen is required to build the documentation for several Boost libraries. You will need a recent version of Doxygen (most of the 1.3.x and 1.4.x versions will suffice). BBv2 by adding the following directive to user-config.jam:

using doxygen : DOXYGEN ;

DOXYGEN should be replaced with the name of the doxygen executable (with full path name). If the right doxygen executable can be found via the path, this parameter can be omitted, e.g.

using doxygen ;

In order to generate PDF and PostScript output using Apache FOP, you will need a Java interpreter and Apache FOP (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 fop.sh on Unix and fop.bat on Windows. You need to specify the location of that script and Java location to Boost.Build. Add the following to your user-config.jam or site-config.jam:

using fop : FOP_COMMAND 
          : JAVA_HOME 
          ;

replacing FOP_COMMAND with the full path to the FOP main script, and replacing JAVA_HOME with the directory where Java is installed. If the JAVA_HOME environment variable is already set, you don't need to specify it above.

To test PDF generation, switch to the directory $BOOST_ROOT/libs/function/doc and execute the command bjam --v2 pdf. In the absence of any errors, Apache FOP will be executed to transform the XSL:FO output of DocBook into a PDF file.