Boost

“...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world.” — Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards

Build and Install

wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost_1_33_1.tar.gz
tar zxvf boost_1_33_1.tar.gz
cd boost_1_33_1
#apt-get install bjam // bjam: Software build tool
#bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install // long time , install to /usr/local/lib
or 
./configure CPPFLAGS="-Iboost_1_33_1" LDFLAGS="-Lboost_1_33_1/libs"
make 
make install 

Debian:

apt-get install libboost-date-time-dev
apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev
apt-get install libboost-regex-dev
apt-get install libboost-serialization-dev
apt-get install libboost-test-dev
apt-get install libboost-dev

on fedora:

apt-get install boost-devel 
apt-get install g++ 

Examples

#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
using boost::lexical_cast;        
int a = lexical_cast<int>("123");
double b = lexical_cast<double>("123.12");
std::cout<<a<<std::endl
std::cout<<b<<std::endl;
return 0;
}

Links

• http://www.boost.org/