Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
The emphasis is on libraries that work well with the C++ Standard
Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable
across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages
both commercial and non-commercial use.
The goal is to establish "existing practice" and provide reference
implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual
standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++
Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) and will be in
the new C++0x Standard now being finalized. C++0x will also include
several more Boost libraries in addition to those from TR1. More Boost
libraries are proposed for TR2.
NOTE: This package does not contain Boost.Python, it's in
devel/boost-python-libs.
===> The following configuration options are available for boost-libs-1.92.0:
COBALT=off: Build Boost.Cobalt, force C++20 usage
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
GIL_EXT=off: Extra file-formats for Generic Image Library component
LLVM_FROM_PORTS=off: Use LLVM from ports to build
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=off: Use extra compiler optimizations
SBT=off: Support stacktrace.backtrace via devel/libbacktrace
SFE=on: Support stacktrace.from_exception (amd64 only)
ZSTD=on: Zstandard compression support
====> Options available for the multi LOCALE: you have to choose at least one of them
ICONV=on: Boost.Locale with iconv encoding support
ICU=on: Boost.Regex/Locale with ICU unicode support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
