String and text processing Containers Iterators Algorithms Function objects and higher-order programming Generic Programming Template Metaprogramming Preprocessor Metaprogramming Concurrent Programming Math and numerics Correctness and testing Data structures Domain Specific Image processing Input/Output Inter-language support Language Features Emulation Memory Parsing Patterns and Idioms Programming Interfaces State Machines System Miscellaneous Broken compiler workarounds accumulators 1.36.0 Accumulators Eric Niebler Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators. libs/accumulators/ false false header-only Math algorithm 1.50.0 Algorithm Marshall Clow A collection of useful generic algorithms. libs/algorithm/ false false header-only Algorithms algorithm/minmax 1.32.0 Min-Max Hervé Brönnimann Standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations. libs/algorithm/minmax/ false false header-only Algorithms algorithm/string 1.32.0 String Algo Pavol Droba String algorithms library. libs/algorithm/string/ false false header-only String Algorithms any 1.23.0 Any Kevlin Henney Safe, generic container for single values of different value types. libs/any/ false false header-only Data array 1.17.0 Array Nicolai Josuttis STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size. libs/array/ false true header-only Containers asio 1.35.0 Asio Chris Kohlhoff Portable networking, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution and socket iostreams. libs/asio/ false false autolink-dependency Concurrent IO assign 1.32.0 Assign Thorsten Ottosen Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier. libs/assign/ false false header-only IO bimap 1.35.0 Bimap Matias Capeletto Bidirectional maps library for C++. With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers in which both types can be used as key. libs/bimap/ false false header-only Containers Data bind 1.25.0 Bind Peter Dimov boost::bind is a generalization of the standard functions std::bind1st and std::bind2nd. It supports arbitrary function objects, functions, function pointers, and member function pointers, and is able to bind any argument to a specific value or route input arguments into arbitrary positions. libs/bind/ false true header-only Function-objects bind/mem_fn 1.25.0 Member Function Peter Dimov Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions. libs/bind/mem_fn.html false true header-only Function-objects bind/ref 1.25.0 Ref Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams A utility library for passing references to generic functions. libs/bind/ref.html false true header-only Function-objects chrono 1.47.0 Chrono Vicente J. Botet Escribá Useful time utilities. libs/chrono/ false false autolink Domain System circular_buffer 1.35.0 Circular Buffer Jan Gaspar A STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer. libs/circular_buffer/ false false header-only Containers compatibility 1.21.2 Compatibility Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer Help for non-conforming standard libraries. libs/compatibility/ false false header-only workarounds concept_check 1.19.0 Concept Check Jeremy Siek Tools for generic programming. libs/concept_check/ false false header-only Generic Correctness config 1.9.0 Config Helps Boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users. libs/config/config.htm false false header-only workarounds container 1.48.0 Container Ion Gaztañaga Standard library containers and extensions. libs/container/ false false header-only Containers Data conversion 1.20.0 Conversion Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney Polymorphic and lexical casts. libs/conversion/ false false header-only String Miscellaneous crc 1.22.0 CRC Daryle Walker The Boost CRC Library provides two implementations of CRC (cyclic redundancy code) computation objects and two implementations of CRC computation functions. The implementations are template-based. libs/crc/ false false header-only Domain date_time 1.29.0 Date Time Jeff Garland A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts. libs/date_time/ false false autolink Domain System dynamic_bitset 1.29.0 Dynamic Bitset Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison The dynamic_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[] and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can apply to builtin integers, such as operator& and operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the dynamic_bitset. libs/dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html false false header-only Containers exception 1.36.0 Exception Emil Dotchevski The Boost Exception library supports transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads. libs/exception/doc/boost-exception.html false false header-only Emulation filesystem 1.30.0 Filesystem Beman Dawes The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories. libs/filesystem/ false false autolink System flyweight 1.38.0 Flyweight Joaquín M López Muñoz Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects. libs/flyweight/ false false header-only Patterns foreach 1.34.0 Foreach Eric Niebler In C++, writing a loop that iterates over a sequence is tedious. We can either use iterators, which requires a considerable amount of boiler-plate, or we can use the std::for_each() algorithm and move our loop body into a predicate, which requires no less boiler-plate and forces us to move our logic far from where it will be used. In contrast, some other languages, like Perl, provide a dedicated "foreach" construct that automates this process. BOOST_FOREACH is just such a construct for C++. It iterates over sequences for us, freeing us from having to deal directly with iterators or write predicates. libs/foreach/ false false header-only Algorithms Emulation format 1.29.0 Format Samuel Krempp The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences: format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types; the ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is replaced by successive calls to an argument feeding operator%. libs/format/ false false header-only String IO function 1.23.0 Function Doug Gregor Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks. libs/function/ false true header-only Function-objects Programming function_types 1.35.0 Function Types Tobias Schwinger Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member types. libs/function_types/ false false header-only Generic Metaprogramming functional 1.16.0 Functional Mark Rodgers The Boost.Function library contains a family of class templates that are function object wrappers. libs/functional/ false false header-only Function-objects functional/hash 1.33.0 Functional/Hash Daniel James A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types. libs/functional/hash/ false true header-only Function-objects functional/factory 1.43.0 Functional/Factory Tobias Schwinger Function object templates for dynamic and static object creation libs/functional/factory/ false false header-only Function-objects functional/forward 1.43.0 Functional/Forward Tobias Schwinger Adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments libs/functional/forward/ false false header-only Function-objects functional/overloaded_function 1.50.0 Functional/OverloadedFunction Lorenzo Caminiti Overload different functions into a single function object. libs/functional/overloaded_function/ false false header-only Function-objects fusion 1.35.0 Fusion Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc. libs/fusion/doc/html/ false false header-only Metaprogramming Data geometry 1.47.0 Geometry Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande and Mateusz Loskot Geometry Library. libs/geometry/ false false header-only Algorithms Math gil 1.35.0 GIL Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin Generic Image Library libs/gil/ false false header-only Containers Iterators Algorithms Generic Image-processing graph 1.18.0 Graph Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock. The BGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the the Standard Template Library (STL). libs/graph/ false false autolink Containers Iterators Algorithms heap 1.49.0 Heap Tim Blechmann Priority queue data structures. libs/heap/ false false header-only Data icl 1.46.0 ICL Joachim Faulhaber Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values libs/icl/ false false header-only Containers Data integer 1.9.0 Integer The organization of boost integer headers and classes is designed to take advantage of <stdint.h> types from the 1999 C standard without resorting to undefined behavior in terms of the 1998 C++ standard. The header <boost/cstdint.hpp> makes the standard integer types safely available in namespace boost without placing any names in namespace std. libs/integer/ false false header-only Math interprocess 1.35.0 Interprocess Ion Gaztañaga Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators. libs/interprocess/ false false header-only Concurrent intrusive 1.35.0 Intrusive Ion Gaztañaga Intrusive containers and algorithms. libs/intrusive/ false false header-only Containers io 1.28.0 IO State Savers Daryle Walker The I/O sub-library of Boost helps segregate the large number of Boost headers. This sub-library should contain various items to use with/for the standard I/O library. libs/io/doc/ios_state.html false false header-only IO iostreams 1.33.0 Iostreams Jonathan Turkanis Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters. libs/iostreams/ false false autolink String IO iterator 1.21.0 Iterators Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt The Boost Iterator Library contains two parts. The first is a system of concepts which extend the C++ standard iterator requirements. The second is a framework of components for building iterators based on these extended concepts and includes several useful iterator adaptors. libs/iterator/ false false header-only Iterators lambda 1.28.0 Lambda Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more. libs/lambda/ false false header-only Function-objects lexical_cast 1.20.0 Lexical Cast Kevlin Henney General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney. libs/conversion/lexical_cast.htm false false header-only String Miscellaneous local_function 1.50.0 LocalFunction Lorenzo Caminiti Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed. libs/local_function/ false false header-only Function-objects locale 1.48.0 Locale Artyom Beilis Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++. libs/locale/ false false build String logic/tribool 1.32.0 Tribool Doug Gregor 3-state boolean type library. doc/html/tribool.html false false header-only Miscellaneous math 1.23.0 Math various Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of mathematics: The Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple library provides run-time and compile-time evaluation of the greatest common divisor (GCD) or least common multiple (LCM) of two integers. The Special Functions library currently provides eight templated special functions, in namespace boost. The Complex Number Inverse Trigonometric Functions are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard. Quaternions are a relative of complex numbers often used to parameterise rotations in three dimentional space. Octonions, like quaternions, are a relative of complex numbers. libs/math/ false false header-only Math math/common_factor 1.26.0 Math Common Factor Daryle Walker Greatest common divisor and least common multiple. libs/math/doc/common_factor.html false false header-only Math math/octonion 1.23.0 Math Octonion Hubert Holin Octonions. libs/math/doc/octonion/html/ false false header-only Math math/quaternion 1.23.0 Math Quaternion Hubert Holin Quaternions. libs/math/doc/quaternion/html/ false false header-only Math math/special_functions 1.35.0 Math/Special Functions John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang A wide selection of mathematical special functions. libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/ false false autolink Math math/statistical_distributions 1.35.0 Math/Statistical Distributions John Maddock and Paul Bristow A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them. libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/ false false header-only Math move 1.48.0 Move Ion Gaztañaga Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++11 compilers. libs/move/ false false header-only Emulation mpi 1.35.0 MPI Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming. libs/mpi/ false false autolink Concurrent mpl 1.30.0 MPL Aleksey Gurtovoy The Boost.MPL library is a general-purpose, high-level C++ template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunctions. It provides a conceptual foundation and an extensive set of powerful and coherent tools that make doing explict metaprogramming in C++ as easy and enjoyable as possible within the current language. libs/mpl/ false false header-only Metaprogramming msm 1.44.0 Meta State Machine Christophe Henry A very high-performance library for expressive UML2 finite state machines. libs/msm/ false false header-only State multi_array 1.29.0 Multi-Array Ron Garcia Boost.MultiArray provides a generic N-dimensional array concept definition and common implementations of that interface. libs/multi_array/ false false header-only Containers Math multi_index 1.32.0 Multi-Index Joaquín M López Muñoz The Boost Multi-index Containers Library provides a class template named multi_index_container which enables the construction of containers maintaining one or more indices with different sorting and access semantics. libs/multi_index/ false false header-only Containers Data numeric/conversion 1.32.0 Numeric Conversion Fernando Cacciola Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions. libs/numeric/conversion/ false false header-only Math Miscellaneous numeric/interval 1.30.0 Interval Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals. libs/numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm false false header-only Math numeric/ublas 1.29.0 uBLAS Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch uBLAS provides matrix and vector classes as well as basic linear algebra routines. Several dense, packed and sparse storage schemes are supported. libs/numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm false false header-only Math optional 1.30.0 Optional Fernando Cacciola Discriminated-union wrapper for optional values. libs/optional/ false false header-only Miscellaneous parameter 1.33.0 Parameter David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin Boost.Parameter Library - Write functions that accept arguments by name. libs/parameter/ false false header-only Programming Emulation phoenix 1.47.0 Phoenix Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Thomas Heller Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more. libs/phoenix/ false false header-only Function-objects polygon 1.44.0 Polygon Lucanus Simonson Booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates. libs/polygon/ false false header-only Miscellaneous pool 1.21.0 Pool Steve Cleary Memory pool management. libs/pool/ false false header-only Memory preprocessor 1.26.0 Preprocessor Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion. libs/preprocessor/ false false header-only Preprocessor program_options 1.32.0 Program Options Vladimir Prus The program_options library allows program developers to obtain program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and config file. libs/program_options/ false false autolink IO Miscellaneous property_map 1.19.0 Property Map Jeremy Siek Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects. libs/property_map/ false false header-only Containers Generic property_tree 1.41.0 Property Tree Marcin Kalicinski Sebastian Redl A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data. libs/property_tree/ false false header-only Containers Data proto 1.37.0 Proto Eric Niebler Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages. libs/proto/ false false header-only Metaprogramming ptr_container 1.33.0 Pointer Container Thorsten Ottosen Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming. libs/ptr_container/ false false header-only Containers Data python 1.19.0 Python Dave Abrahams The Boost Python Library is a framework for interfacing Python and C++. It allows you to quickly and seamlessly expose C++ classes functions and objects to Python, and vice-versa, using no special tools -- just your C++ compiler. libs/python/ false false Inter-language random 1.15.0 Random Jens Maurer A complete system for random number generation. libs/random/ false true header-only Math range 1.32.0 Range Niel Groves, Thorsten Ottosen A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts. libs/range/ false false header-only Algorithms ratio 1.47.0 Ratio Vicente J. Botet Escribá Compile time rational arithmetic. libs/ratio/ false false header-only Math rational 1.11.0 Rational Paul Moore A rational number class. libs/rational/ false false header-only Math regex 1.18.0 Regex John Maddock Regular expression library. libs/regex/ false true autolink String scope_exit 1.38.0 Scope Exit Alexander Nasonov Execute arbitrary code at scope exit. libs/scope_exit/ false false header-only Emulation serialization 1.32.0 Serialization Robert Ramey Serialization for persistence and marshalling. libs/serialization/ false false autolink IO signals 1.29.0 Signals Doug Gregor Managed signals & slots callback implementation. libs/signals/ false false autolink Function-objects Patterns signals2 1.39.0 Signals2 Frank Mori Hess Managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2). libs/signals2/ false false header-only Function-objects Patterns smart_ptr 1.23.0 Smart Ptr Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler Smart pointer class templates. libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm false true header-only Memory static_assert 1.19.0 Static Assert John Maddock Static assertions (compile time assertions). libs/static_assert/ false false header-only Generic Metaprogramming Correctness spirit 1.30.0 Spirit Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser, and Dan Nuffer LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++. libs/spirit/ false false header-only String Parsing statechart 1.34.0 Statechart Andreas Huber Dönni Boost.Statechart - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code. libs/statechart/ false false header-only State system 1.35.0 System Beman Dawes Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library. libs/system/ false false autolink System test 1.21.0 Test Gennadiy Rozental Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring. libs/test/ false false autolink Correctness thread 1.25.0 Thread Anthony Williams (originally William Kempf) Portable C++ multi-threading. libs/thread/ true false autolink Concurrent System timer 1.9.0 Timer Beman Dawes Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes. libs/timer/ false false header-only Miscellaneous tokenizer 1.23.0 Tokenizer John Bandela Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens. libs/tokenizer/ false false header-only String Iterators tr1 1.34.0 TR1 John Maddock The TR1 library provides an implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions. This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost Library equivalents, and import them into namespace std::tr1. libs/tr1/ false true header-only Miscellaneous tuple 1.24.0 Tuple Jaakko Järvi Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more. libs/tuple/ false true header-only Data type_traits 1.13.0 Type Traits John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al Templates for fundamental properties of types. libs/type_traits/ false true header-only Generic Metaprogramming typeof 1.34.0 Typeof Arkadiy Vertleyb, Peder Holt Typeof operator emulation. libs/typeof/ false false header-only Emulation units 1.36.0 Units Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion. libs/units/ false false header-only Domain unordered 1.36.0 Unordered Daniel James Unordered associative containers. libs/unordered/ false true header-only Containers utility 1.13.0 Utility Dave Abrahams and others Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom. libs/utility/utility.htm false false header-only Algorithms Function-objects Memory Patterns Miscellaneous utility/call_traits 1.13.0 Call Traits John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al Defines types for passing parameters. libs/utility/call_traits.htm false false header-only Generic utility/compressed_pair 1.13.0 Compressed Pair John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al Empty member optimization. libs/utility/compressed_pair.htm false false header-only Data Patterns utility/enable_if 1.31.0 Enable If Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine Selective inclusion of function template overloads. libs/utility/enable_if.html false false header-only Generic utility/identity_type 1.50.0 Identity Type Lorenzo Caminiti Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters. libs/utility/identity_type/ false false header-only Preprocessor utility/in_place_factories 1.32.0 In Place Factory, Typed In Place Factory Fernando Cacciola Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list. libs/utility/in_place_factories.html false false header-only Generic utility/operators 1.9.0 Operators Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators. libs/utility/operators.htm false false header-only Iterators Generic Math utility/result_of 1.32.0 Result Of Determines the type of a function call expression. libs/utility/utility.htm#result_of false false header-only Function-objects utility/swap 1.38.0 Swap Joseph Gauterin Enhanced generic swap function. libs/utility/swap.html false false header-only Miscellaneous utility/value_initialized 1.9.0 Value Initialized Fernando Cacciola Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams. libs/utility/value_init.htm false false header-only Miscellaneous uuid 1.42.0 Uuid Andy Tompkins A universally unique identifier. libs/uuid/ false false header-only Data Domain variant 1.31.0 Variant Eric Friedman and Itay Maman Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container. libs/variant/ false false header-only Containers Data wave 1.33.0 Wave Hartmut Kaiser The Boost.Wave library is a Standards conformant, and highly configurable implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface. libs/wave/ false false autolink String xpressive 1.34.0 Xpressive Eric Niebler Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and which can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars. libs/xpressive/ false false header-only String