Boost Header-only Distribution

"Boost, but only the header files."

This repo is meant to provide a lightweight, minimal Boost distribution to satisfy SciPy's limited set of Boost dependencies. No binaries are features relying on compiled libraries are available through this header-only package.

Structure

project-root
├── boost/ : Contents of Boost includes directory (generated)
├── Boost_README_[version].md : Boost README file (generated)
├── LICENSE_1_0.txt : Boost license (generated)
├── make_headers.py : script to create generated files
└── README.rst : this README file

Updating

To regenerate the header files or update to a new version of Boost, the make_headers.py script can be modified and run on a Linux, MacOS, or Windows machine that has access to the internet. It will automatically populate the boost/ directory with the generated header files from a minimal build. It can run very simply as follows:

python make_headers.py -v --boost-version 1.75.0

To update the version of Boost, give a different Boost version to the --boost-version option in the format: [major].[minor].[patch]. The -v option is optional and turns on verbose logging.

Patches

Patches (e.g., from cherry-picking upstream commits) can be applied by placing .patch files generated using git diff in the patches directory. See PATCHES for more information.