Libraries by Name
Accumulators 03+
Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators.
Algorithm 03+
A collection of useful generic algorithms.
Align 03+
Memory alignment functions, allocators, traits.
Any 03+
Safe, generic container for single values of different value types.
Array 03+
STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size.
Asio 03+
Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs.
Assert 03+
Customizable assert macros.
Assign 03+
Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier.
Atomic 03+
C++11-style atomic<>.
Beast 11+
Portable HTTP, WebSocket, and network operations using only C++11 and Boost.Asio
Bimap 03+
Bidirectional maps library for C++. With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers in which both types can be used as key.
Bind 03+
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.
CallableTraits 11+
A spiritual successor to Boost.FunctionTypes, Boost.CallableTraits is a header-only C++11 library for the compile-time inspection and manipulation of all 'callable' types. Additional support for C++17 features.
Call Traits 03+
Defines types for passing parameters.
Chrono 03+
Useful time utilities. C++11.
Circular Buffer 03+
A STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer.
Compat 11+
C++11 implementations of standard components added in later C++ standards.
Compatibility 03+
Help for non-conforming standard libraries.
Compressed Pair 03+
Empty member optimization.
Compute 03+
Parallel/GPU-computing library
Concept Check 03+
Tools for generic programming.
Config 03+
Helps Boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.
Container 03+
Standard library containers and extensions.
Container Hash 03+
An STL-compatible hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types.
Context 11+
(C++11) Context switching library.
Contract 03+
Contract programming for C++. All contract programming features are supported: Subcontracting, class invariants, postconditions (with old and return values), preconditions, customizable actions on assertion failure (e.g., terminate or throw), optional compilation and checking of assertions, etc.
Conversion 03+
Polymorphic casts.
Convert 11+
An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework.
Core 03+
A collection of simple core utilities with minimal dependencies.
Coroutine 03+
Coroutine library.
Coroutine2 11+
(C++11) Coroutine library.
CRC 03+
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.
Date Time 03+
A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts.
Describe 03+
A C++14 reflection library.
Detail 03+
This library contains a set of header only utilities used internally by Boost C++ Libraries to facilitate their implementation.
DLL 03+
Library for comfortable work with DLL and DSO.
Dynamic Bitset 03+
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.
Enable If 03+
Selective inclusion of function template overloads.
Endian 03+
Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness.
Exception 03+
The Boost Exception library supports transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads.
Fiber 11+
(C++11) Userland threads library.
Filesystem 03+
The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories.
Flyweight 03+
Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects.
Foreach 03+
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.
Format 03+
The format library provides a type-safe mechanism for formatting arguments according to a printf-like format-string.
Function 03+
Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks.
Functional 03+
The Boost.Function library contains a family of class templates that are function object wrappers.
Functional/Factory 03+
Function object templates for dynamic and static object creation
Functional/Forward 03+
Adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments
Functional/Overloaded Function 03+
Overload different functions into a single function object.
Function Types 03+
Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member types.
Fusion 03+
Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
Geometry 14+
The Boost.Geometry library provides geometric algorithms, primitives and spatial index.
GIL 14+
(C++14) Generic Image Library
Graph 03+
The BGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the Standard Template Library (STL).
GraphParallel 03+
The PBGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the Standard Template Library (STL).
Hana 14+
A modern C++ metaprogramming library. It provides high level algorithms to manipulate heterogeneous sequences, allows writing type-level computations with a natural syntax, provides tools to introspect user-defined types and much more.
Heap 03+
Priority queue data structures.
Histogram 14+
Fast multi-dimensional histogram with convenient interface for C++14
HOF 11+
Higher-order functions for C++
ICL 03+
Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values
Identity Type 03+
Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters.
In Place Factory, Typed In Place Factory 03+
Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list.
Integer 03+
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.
Interprocess 03+
Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators.
Interval 03+
Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals.
Intrusive 03+
Intrusive containers and algorithms.
IO 03+
Utilities for the standard I/O library.
Iostreams 03+
Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters.
Iterator 03+
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.
JSON 11+
JSON parsing, serialization, and DOM in C++11
Lambda 03+
Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.
Lambda2 14+
A C++14 lambda library.
LEAF 11+
A lightweight error handling library for C++11.
Lexical Cast 03+
General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa.
Locale 11+
Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++.
Local Function 03+
Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed.
Lockfree 03+
Lockfree data structures.
Log 03+
Logging library.
Math 14+
Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of mathematics: Floating Point Utilities, Specific Width Floating Point Types, Mathematical Constants, Statistical Distributions, Special Functions, Root Finding and Function Minimization, Polynomials and Rational Functions, Interpolation, and Numerical Integration and Differentiation. Many of these features are templated to support both built-in, and extended width types (e.g. Boost.Multiprecision)
Member Function 03+
Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions.
Metaparse 03+
A library for generating compile time parsers parsing embedded DSL code as part of the C++ compilation process
Meta State Machine 03+
A very high-performance library for expressive UML2 finite state machines.
Min-Max 03+
Standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations.
Move 03+
Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++11 compilers.
Mp11 11+
A C++11 metaprogramming library.
MPI 03+
Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming.
MPL 03+
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.
Multi-Array 03+
Boost.MultiArray provides a generic N-dimensional array concept definition and common implementations of that interface.
Multi-Index 03+
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.
Multiprecision 14+
Extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer, and rational arithmetic.
MySQL 11+
MySQL client library built on top of Boost.Asio.
Nowide 11+
Standard library functions with UTF-8 API on Windows.
Numeric Conversion 03+
Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions.
Odeint 03+
Solving ordinary differential equations.
Operators 03+
Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators.
Optional 03+
A value-semantic, type-safe wrapper for representing 'optional' (or 'nullable') objects of a given type. An optional object may or may not contain a value of the underlying type.
Outcome 14+
A deterministic failure handling library partially simulating lightweight exceptions.
Parameter 03+
Boost.Parameter Library - Write functions that accept arguments by name.
Parameter Python Bindings 03+
Boost.Parameter Library Python bindings.
PFR 14+
Basic reflection for user defined types.
Phoenix 03+
Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.
Pointer Container 03+
Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming.
PolyCollection 11+
Fast containers of polymorphic objects.
Polygon 03+
Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates.
Pool 03+
Memory pool management.
Predef 98+
This library defines a set of compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available headers.
Preprocessor 03+
Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion.
Process 11+
Library to create processes in a portable way.
Program Options 03+
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.
Property Map 03+
Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects.
Property Map (Parallel) 03+
Parallel extensions to Property Map for use with Parallel Graph.
Property Tree 03+
A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data.
Proto 03+
Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages.
Python 03+
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.
QVM 03+
Generic C++ library for working with Quaternions Vectors and Matrices.
Random 03+
A complete system for random number generation.
Range 03+
A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts.
Ratio 03+
Compile time rational arithmetic. C++11.
Rational 03+
A rational number class.
Ref 03+
A utility library for passing references to generic functions.
Regex 11+
Regular expression library.
Result Of 03+
Determines the type of a function call expression.
Safe Numerics 14+
Guaranteed Correct Integer Arithmetic
Scope Exit 03+
Execute arbitrary code at scope exit.
Serialization 03+
Serialization for persistence and marshalling.
Signals2 03+
Managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2).
Smart Ptr 03+
Smart pointer class templates.
Sort 03+
High-performance templated sort functions.
Spirit 03+
LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++.
Stacktrace 03+
Gather, store, copy and print backtraces.
Statechart 03+
Boost.Statechart - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code.
Static Assert 03+
Static assertions (compile time assertions).
Static String 11+
A fixed capacity dynamically sized string.
Stl_interfaces 14+
C++14 and later CRTP templates for defining iterators, views, and containers.
String Algo 03+
String algorithms library.
String Ref 03+
String view templates.
Swap 03+
Enhanced generic swap function.
System 03+
Extensible error reporting.
Test 03+
Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring.
Thread 03+
Portable C++ multi-threading. C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17.
ThrowException 03+
A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from Boost libraries.
Timer 03+
Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.
Tokenizer 03+
Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens.
Tribool 03+
3-state boolean type library.
TTI 03+
Type Traits Introspection library.
Tuple 03+
Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more.
Type Erasure 03+
Runtime polymorphism based on concepts.
Type Index 03+
Runtime/Compile time copyable type info.
Typeof 03+
Typeof operator emulation.
Type Traits 03+
Templates for fundamental properties of types.
uBLAS 03+
uBLAS provides tensor, matrix, and vector classes as well as basic linear algebra routines. Several dense, packed and sparse storage schemes are supported.
Units 03+
Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion.
Unordered 03+
Unordered associative containers.
URL 11+
URL parsing in C++11
Utility 03+
Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.
Uuid 03+
A universally unique identifier.
Value Initialized 03+
Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.
Variant 03+
Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container.
Variant2 11+
A never-valueless, strong guarantee implementation of std::variant.
VMD 03+
Variadic Macro Data library.
Wave 11+
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.
WinAPI 03+
Windows API abstraction layer.
Xpressive 03+
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.
YAP 14+
An expression template library for C++14 and later.