Editing Software Development Platforms (section)

===boost===

====Using apt-get====

 sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libboost-doc

It looks like Ubuntu 10.04 gets boost-1.40, I think we need at least boost 1.43, so you need to install from source.

====From source====

Download the boost source code from http://www.boost.org .  Unpack it with a command like:

 tar xvjf boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2

First you need to build bjam, which is boost's native build tool. 

 ./bootstrap.sh

These are the commands that I used to build and install a version of boost:

 ./b2 --build-dir=build --prefix=/opt/boost-1.50.0 -j 4 link=static cflags=-fPIC cxxflags=-fPIC
 sudo ./b2 install --build-dir=build --prefix=/opt/boost-1.50.0 link=static cflags=-fPIC cxxflags=-fPIC

On 64 bit Linux, we need to use the -fPIC flag to avoid linker problems when trying to link boost statically.

Here is the [[#Scripts_to_Set_Environment_Variables|setenv.sh]] script to put into /opt/boost-1.50.0 after installing.

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<source lang=bash>
#!/bin/bash
 
source /usr/local/bin/setenv_functions.sh
 
SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 
export BOOST_ROOT="${SCRIPT_DIR}"
</source>
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