On Friday, April 24, 2015 03:39 PM, Marko Asplund wrote:

Hi,

While trying to build Boost on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS I noticed that the build failed because some library dependencies were missing on my system. I was unable to find documentation about library dependencies and other pre-requisites for building Boost. Are these documented somewhere?

Some build related info can be found here, but I couldn't find info about required libraries: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

I was able to build Boost after installing libpython-dev, libbz2-dev packages. This was with default Boost configuration, so other libraries may be required for custom configurations.

This doesn't really answer the question, but as a practical note, you can do: sudo apt-get build-dep libboost* Which will install the build dependencies for the version of Boost in your repository, rather than the version you're trying to build, but it should get you where you want to be most of the time. Ben