Free peer-reviewed portable C++ libraries
Availability
Instructions for users
On Ubuntu this is available by default.
Licence Details
Boost licence which is an open source licence.
Documentation
Have a look in /usr/share/doc/libboost$VERSION-doc, where $VERSION will depend on the version of Ubuntu.
Source
Admin notes
A quick test, taken from the boost documentation:
#include <boost lambda="" lambda.hpp="">
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
int main() {
using namespace boost::lambda;
typedef std::istream_iterator<int> in;
std::for_each(
in(std::cin), in(), std::cout << (_1 * 3) << " "
);
}
To test this:
$ g++ -o boost boost.cpp $ echo 1 2 3 | ./boost 3 6 9
The test is really whether it finds the headers OK at compile time.
On Ubuntu the packages are split up and so we can get away with just installing libboost-math-dev and libboost-doc .
