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Dependencies

Boost.Bimap is built on top of several Boost libraries. The rationale behind this decision is keeping the Boost code base small by reusing existent code. The libraries used are well-established and have been tested extensively, making this library easy to port since all the hard work has already been done. The glue that holds everything together is Boost.MPL. Clearly Boost.MultiIndex is the heart of this library.

Table 1.4. Boost Libraries needed by Boost.Bimap

Name

Description

author

Boost.MultiIndex

Containers with multiple STL-compatible access interfaces

Joaquín M López Muñoz

Boost.MPL

Template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes

Aleksey Gurtovoy

Boost.TypeTraits

Templates for fundamental properties of types.

John Maddock, Steve Cleary

Boost.enable_if

Selective inclusion of function template overloads

Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, Andrew Lumsdaine

Boost.Iterators

Iterator construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more.

Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, Thomas Witt

Boost.call_traits

Defines types for passing parameters.

John Maddock, Howard Hinnant

Boost.StaticAssert

Static assertions (compile time assertions).

John Maddock


Table 1.5. Optional Boost Libraries

Name

Description

author

Purpose

Boost.Serialization

Serialization for persistence and marshalling

Robert Ramey

Serialization support for bimap containers and iterators

Boost.Assign

Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier

Thorsten Ottosen

Help to fill a bimap or views of it

Boost.Hash

A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types

Daniel James

Default hashing function

Boost.Lambda

Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more

from Jaakko Järvi, Gary Powell

Functors for modify, range, lower_bound and upper_bound

Boost.Range

A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts

Thorsten Ottosen

Range based algorithms

Boost.PropertyMap

Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects

Jeremy Siek

Integration with BGL


Table 1.6. Additional Boost Libraries needed to run the test-suite

Name

Description

author

Boost.Test

Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring.

Gennadiy Rozental



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