Install Boost

This package contains the Boost C++ Libraries development files.

Install Boost (Ubuntu)

Usually, you'll want to install all available Boost libraries. Note that you will be prompted for your password upon using sudo.

sudo apt install libboost-all-dev

In case you just want specific components of the Boost framework, check available packages (libboost-<component>-dev) first. For Boost.Thread:

sudo apt install libboost-thread-dev

Header-only Boost libraries are grouped in one single package, which is a common dependency for libboost-all-dev and libboost-<component>-dev:

sudo apt install libboost-dev

Download the source code from http://www.boost.org/users/download/.
Extract in a Boost folder located at C:\ or C:\Program files so that CMake find-modules can detect it.
Invoke the command line and navigate to the extracted folder (e.g. cd C:\Boost\boost_1_63_0).
Follow the instructions at http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/overview/invocation.html to build all packages in the selected configuration. You may want to compile only specific modules, in which case refer to their documentation (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/).
- Run the bootstrap script (bootstrap.bat) prior to building anything.
- Issuing b2 will build only static libraries for the default architecture and both Release and Debug configurations.
- Issue b2 variant=release address-model=64 link=static,shared to build 64-bit static and dynamic binaries in Release configuration for all available Boost components.
- Issue b2 property=value --with-<component> to build only specific Boost components (list). Use lower case. Example: b2 variant=release --with-thread will build release binaries for Boost.Thread. You can chain multiple --with-<component> options.
- See #Properties for further details on the command line interface.