just installed Boost via MacPorts...

[mzimmers]

...on a Mac, obviously. The messages said it installed successfully, but it didn't tell me where it put the files. I can't find them by looking around. Anyone know where it installs the header files by default?

[zwA4jE8b]

I don't use mac but I found this

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=290098

[mzimmers]

Thanks...that helped. In my case, they went into /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.49.0/include/, and a link was placed in /usr/local/include/.

I'm not sure why they went into Cellar; that might have something to do with my having installed a download/build utility the other day. On a "vanilla" Mac, the Cellar directory may have been bypassed.

EDIT: just checked, and it indeed is in Cellar because I used homebrew to do the download/build. FWIW, homebrew is pretty easy to use for us Mac types; probably a little easier than MacPorts.