...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Since Boost.Python is a separately-compiled (as opposed to header-only
) library, its user relies on the services
of a Boost.Python library binary.
If you need a regular installation of the Boost.Python library binaries on
your system, the Boost Getting
Started Guide will walk you through the steps of creating one. If
building binaries from source, you might want to supply the --with-python
argument to bjam
(or the
--with-libraries=python
argument to configure
), so
only the Boost.Python binary will be built, rather than all the Boost binaries.