Boost Libraries

Libraries Listed by Category
     General use
     Helpers to ease construction of your own designs
     Correctness and testing
     Broken compiler workarounds
     Math and numerics
     String and text processing
     Other domains
Libraries Listed Alphabetically
Obsolete Libraries
Beta Libraries

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Libraries Listed by Category

General use

any - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.
array - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.
conversion - Numeric, polymorphic, and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.
crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.
pool - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.
smart_ptr - Four smart pointer classes, from Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes.
timer - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.
utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior(), and tie() function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others.

Helpers to ease construction of your own designs

call_traits - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL, from Nicolai Josuttis.
compressed_pair - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
function - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor
functional - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.
iterator adaptors - Adapt a base type into a standard conforming iterator, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and John Potter.
operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
property map - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.
tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.
type_traits - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.
utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior(), and tie() function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others.

Correctness and testing

concept check - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.
static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
test - Support for program testing and execution, from Beman Dawes.

Broken compiler workarounds

compatibility - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.
config - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.

Math and numerics

integer - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.
math/octonion - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.
math/quaterion - Quaterions, from Hubert Holin.
math/special_functions - Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc, from Hubert Holin.
random - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.
rational - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.

String and text processing

regex - Regular expression library, from John Maddock
tokenizer - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela..

Other domains

graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team.
python - Reflects C++ classes and functions into Python, from Dave Abrahams.

Libraries Listed Alphabetically

any - Safe, generic container for single values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.
array - STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from Nicolai Josuttis.
call_traits - Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
compatibility - Help for non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer.
compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL, from Nicolai Josuttis.
compressed_pair - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al.
concept check - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.
config - Helps boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.
conversion - Numeric, polymorphic, and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney.
crc - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle Walker.
function - Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor
functional - Enhanced function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.
graph - Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team.
integer - Headers to ease dealing with integral types.
iterator adaptors - Adapt a base type into a standard conforming iterator, and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and John Potter.
math/octonion - Octonions, from Hubert Holin.
math/quaterion - Quaterions, from Hubert Holin.
math/special_functions - Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc, from Hubert Holin.
operators - Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek.
pool - Memory pool management, from Steve Cleary.
property map - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects, from Jeremy Siek.
python - Reflects C++ classes and functions into Python, from Dave Abrahams.
random - A complete system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.
rational - A rational number class, from Paul Moore.
regex - Regular expression library, from John Maddock.
smart_ptr - Four smart pointer classes, from Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes.
static_assert - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John Maddock.
test - Support for program testing and execution, from Beman Dawes.
timer - Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman Dawes.
tokenizer - Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.
tuple - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more, from Jaakko Järvi.
type_traits - Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.
utility - Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior(), and tie() function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others.

Obsolete Libraries

min_rand - a random number generator class from Beman Dawes. Replaced by random.

Beta Libraries

Boost no longer supports beta libraries on the Boost web site. These libraries will soon be either submitted for formal review or removed.

array_traits - tools to treat built-in arrays more like STL containers from Dietmar Kühl. Also see array.
dir_it - A set of file system directory level iterators from Dietmar Kühl.
heaps - a heap of priority queues from Dietmar Kühl.

Revised 06 Sep 2001