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## Chapter 17. Getting Started

To use the Boost documentation tools, you will need several tools:

- xsltproc:

  - Windows with Cygwin: select the libxml2 and libxslt packages.
  - Windows without Cygwin: Download packages here.
  - Mac OS X with Fink: Get the `libxslt` package.
  - Mac OS X without Fink: Download the libxslt binaries
  - Any platform: libxslt source.

- doxygen:

  Available from http://www.doxygen.org

## Automatic setup for Unix-like systems

BoostBook provides a nearly-automatic setup script. Once you have downloaded and installed xsltproc, doxygen, and (optionally) java, the setup script can download the required DocBook stylesheets, DocBook DTD, and (when Java is enabled) Apache FOP for PDF output. It will then configure Boost.Build version 2 to build BoostBook documentation. To perform the installation, execute the script tools/boostbook/setup_boostbook.sh from a directory where you would like the resulting XSL, DTD, and Apache FOP installations to occur.

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