一、下载boost

Download .
在boost库安装目录中解压
tar --bzip2 -xf /path/to/boost_1_79_0.tar.bz2

二、boost发行版

目录结构：

* boost_1_79_0/ .................The “boost root directory”
  * index.htm .........A copy of www.boost.org starts here
  * boost/ .........................All Boost Header files
  *  libs/ ............Tests, .cpps, docs, etc., by library
      *  index.html ........Library documentation starts here
      *   algorithm/
      * any/
      *  array/
         …more libraries…
  *  status/ .........................Boost-wide test suite
  *   tools/ ...........Utilities, e.g. Boost.Build, quickbook, bcp
  *   more/ ..........................Policy documents, etc.
  *   doc/ ...............A subset of all Boost library doc

** $BOOST_ROOT**通常是boost root directory (often /usr/local/boost_1_79_0)
因为所有的boost头文件都有.hpp扩展名，并且位于boost根目录的boost /子目录中，所以boost #include指令可以：
#include <boost/whatever.hpp> 或
#include "boost/whatever.hpp"
不要被doc/子目录分心;它只包含boost文档的一个子集。如果您想要查找全部内容，请从libs/index.html开始。

三、构建boost

1、大部分boost不需要构建，是head-only的库。
2、需要编译的库有：

Boost.Chrono
Boost.Context
Boost.Filesystem
Boost.GraphParallel
Boost.IOStreams
Boost.Locale
Boost.Log (see build documentation)
Boost.MPI
Boost.ProgramOptions
Boost.Python (see the Boost.Python build documentation before building and installing it)
Boost.Regex
Boost.Serialization
Boost.Thread
Boost.Timer
Boost.Wave

3、一些库有可选的单独编译的二进制文件：

Boost.Graph also has a binary component that is only needed if you intend to parse GraphViz files.
Boost.Math has binary components for the TR1 and C99 cmath functions.
Boost.Random has a binary component which is only needed if you're using <tt class="docutils literal">random_device</tt>.
Boost.Test can be used in “header-only” or “separately compiled” mode, although separate compilation is recommended for serious use.
Boost.Exception provides non-intrusive implementation of exception_ptr for 32-bit _MSC_VER==1310 and _MSC_VER==1400 which requires a separately-compiled binary. This is enabled by #define BOOST_ENABLE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EXCEPTION_PTR.
Boost.System is header-only since Boost 1.69. A stub library is still built for compatibility, but linking to it is no longer necessary.

四、示例

#include <boost/lambda/lambda.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>

int main()
{
    using namespace boost::lambda;
    typedef std::istream_iterator<int> in;

    std::for_each(
        in(std::cin), in(), std::cout << (_1 * 3) << " " );
}