Boost Libraries
- array - STL compliant
container wrapper for arrays of constant size from
Nicolai Josuttis.
- call_traits -
Defines types for passing parameters from John Maddock,
Howard Hinnant, et al.
- compatibility - Help for
non-conforming standard libraries from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
Maurer.
- compose - Functional
composition adapters for the STL from Nicolai Josuttis.
- compressed_pair
- Empty member optimization from John Maddock, Howard
Hinnant, et al.
- concept check
- Tools for generic programming from Jeremy Siek.
- config - Helps boost
library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
intended for library users.
- conversion - Numeric,
polymorphic, and lexical casts from Dave Abrahams and
Kevlin Henney.
- dir_it - A set of file
system directory level iterators from Dietmar Kühl.
- functional - Enhanced
function object adaptors from Mark Rodgers.
- graph -
Generic graph components and algorithms from Jeremy Siek
and a University of Notre Dame team.
- integer - Headers to ease
dealing with integral types.
- iterator adaptors
- Adapt a base type into a standard conforming iterator,
and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and John
Potter.
- operators - Templates
ease arithmetic classes and iterators from Dave Abrahams
and Jeremy Siek.
- pool - Memory pool management from
Steve Cleary.
- property map
- Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
value objects from Jeremy Siek.
- python - Reflects C++
classes and functions into Python, from Dave
Abrahams.
- random - A complete
system for random number generation from Jens Maurer.
- rational - A rational
number class from Paul Moore.
- regex - Regular expression
library from John Maddock.
- smart_ptr - Four smart
pointer classes from Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes.
- static_assert
- Static assertions (compile time assertions) from John
Maddock.
- test - Support for program testing and
execution from Beman Dawes.
- timer - Event timer,
progress timer, and progress display classes from Beman
Dawes.
- type_traits -
Templates for fundamental properties of types from John
Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.
- utility - Class noncopyable
plus next(), prior(), and tie()
function templates from Dave Abrahams and others.
See Compiler Status
to find out what library works with which compiler.
See Header Dependencies to find
out what other headers each boost header includes.
See Download and Installation to find out
how to download and install the libraries.
Obsolete Libraries
- min_rand - a random
number generator class from Beman Dawes. Replaced by random.
Beta Libraries
- array_traits -
tools to treat built-in arrays more like STL containers
from Dietmar Kühl. Also see array.
- heaps - a heap of
priority queues from Dietmar Kühl.
Revised 25 Apr 2001