The Boost libraries

Boost packages are available for every operating system; most Linux distributions have packages available through their package managers. On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, for instance, the Boost Filesystem, Boost Python, and Boost Test libraries can be installed with the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-test-dev

For macOS, both MacPorts and Homebrew provide packages for recent versions of Boost. Our testing setup on macOS installs Boost as follows:

$ brew cask uninstall --force oclint
$ brew uninstall --force --ignore-dependencies boost
$ brew install boost 
$ brew install boost-python3

Prebuilt binary distributions for Windows are also available for download from the Boost website at http://www.boost.org. Alternatively, you can download the sources from https://www.boost.org and compile the libraries yourself.