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Add note for Windows to set Boost_INCLUDE_DIR (#2554)
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* Add note to for Windows to set `Boost_INCLUDE_DIR`

* Update docs/user-guide/installation/windows.md

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Expand Up @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Studio version should match the version of the Boost libraries you are using.

If you installed Boost into the root of the C or D drives with the
default location (or the `BOOST_INSTALL_PATH` environment variable has been set), CMake should automatically detect their location. Otherwise the
location will need to be manually given to CMake.
location will need to be manually given to CMake through `Boost_INCLUDE_DIR`. This should be used if the Boost version is new and not known to HELICS or you want to be explicit about which boost folder to use.
NOTE: CMake 3.14 and later separate the architecture into a separate field for the generator

A basic call with `cmake` using Visual Studio 2022 on a 64bit Windows machine and installing to a folder called `install` inside the repository would be:
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