Building Boost

Version used: Boost-v1.7 with Python3 support

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> $ wget https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.70.0/source/boost_1_70_0.tar.gz

$ tar xvf boost_1_70_0.tar.gz

$ cd boost_1_70_0/

$ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/opt/boost-v1.7-python3 --with-python=/usr/bin/python3

$ sudo ./b2 install --prefix=/opt/boost-v1.7-python3 --with=all -j4 </syntaxhighlight>

Remember to add Boost details to your environment, e.g. /etc/bashrc:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/boost-v1.7-python3/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/boost-v1.7-python3/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH

export PYTHONPATH=/opt/boost-v1.7-python3/lib:$PYTHONPATH </syntaxhighlight>