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How to install Boost unit test framework library

We are using the boost library for our c++ testing framework following the 1.62 and onward syntax. There are several solutions to install it.

ubuntu/debian system wide

sudo apt-get install libboost-test-dev

Depending on your version of these distributions, you might not get a recent enough verison of the boost library.

Mac

It seems that the brew recepy of boost is broken (compilation errors). Custom or Conda installations are advised.

Custom installation

We use 7z to unpack (sudo apt-get install p7zip-full to install on ubuntu)

export BOOST_DIR=/path/to/download/directory
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.64.0/boost_1_64_0.7z/download -O $BOOST_DIR/boost_1_64_0.7z
7z x $BOOST_DIR/boost_1_64_0.7z
cd $BOOST_DIR/boost_1_64_0
mkdir boost_root
./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=test --with-toolset=gcc --prefix=$BOOST_DIR/boost_1_64_0/boost_root
./b2 install
export Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS=ON
export BOOST_ROOT=$BOOST_DIR/boost_1_64_0/boost_root

Cmake FindBoost might not find this installation of Boost Test so we set Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS to avoid finding another installation of Boost and we set BOOST_ROOT to this new installation.

Using Conda

Conda distributes Boost library in the conda forge channel.

  • First install miniconda if not already available:
export MINICONDA_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/path/to/download/directory
wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O $MINICONDA_DOWNLOAD_DIR/miniconda.sh
bash $MINICONDA_DOWNLOAD_DIR/miniconda.sh
bash $MINICONDA_DOWNLOAD_DIR/miniconda.sh -b -p $HOME/miniconda
export PATH="$HOME/miniconda/bin:$PATH"
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/miniconda/bin:$PATH"' >> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc
conda create -n myenv python=3.6
  • Install boost from conda forge
source activate myenv
conda install -c conda-forge boost
export Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS=ON
export BOOST_ROOT=/path/to/myenv

Following the previous example, /path/to/myenv -> $HOME/miniconda/envs/myenv.

Cmake FindBoost might not find this installation of Boost so we set Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS to avoid finding another installation of Boost and we set BOOST_ROOT to this new installation.