After much delay, the Bincrafters team has completed the Boost 1.66.0 modular packages, and they’re finally ready for consumption. In case you’re new to Bincrafters, you can find the link to the repository here:
Bincrafters Public Conan Repository on Bintray
Along with this release, we’re also announcing a general request for assistance from the Conan user community. Please read on for more details.

Call to Action

If you want to help support the Bincrafters team and the modular Boost packages, now is your chance. We have a very simple need, and so the contributions we are looking for are extremely small. In short, we need tests. Boost has ~35 libraries which require compilation and we’ve written tests for each of those. However, there are 100 header-only libraries, and so far we’ve only created test_packages for a few of them. So, if you want to contribute and know how to write a test_package for Conan, please choose a library from the list at the bottom of this post.

Conan Center

We’ve been asked about Conan Center many times, and the answer is Yes! We do plan on submitting to Conan Center in the near future, and we have the support of the Conan team. In the meantime, the more usage feedback we get in our github issues list and slack channel the better: https://github.com/bincrafters/community/issues

Also, it’s worth noting that one of the requirements for libraries to be included in Conan Center is a proper test_package.

Usage Notes

There are ~135 libraries in Boost, so obviously there are a few nuances related to the packages which users might want to know. We’ve created a page in our documentation to capture all these usage details, and will continue to add to it over time.

Usage Notes for Boost Packages

Here are some highlights:

• FindBoost.cmake : CMake refs to Boost::xyz and Boost_FOUND now work
• all : bugfixes… bugs and important flags fixed everywhere
• all : packages now built with both libcxx options (libstdc and libstdc++11)
• boost_iostreams : zlib, bzip2, and lzma compressors are enabled by default
• boost_python : improved version and python path detection. better override options.
• misc : C++11 Only Libraries include: log, context, coroutine, fiber

Backporting

We are currently in the process of rebuilding 1.65.1 and 1.64.0 with the new changes. We hope this will be ready by 2/20/2018.

List of Header-Only Libraries Which Need Testing

Please feel free to fork and add a test_package, then submit a PR back for review.

Notes:

• Please submit the PR back to testing/1.66.0 branch.
• Please do not use the example from the libraries documentation.
• Please write some minimum amount of code to instantiate some class from the library.
• A “Done” tag will be added beside the URL’s below as we receive PR’s.

Example: Boost Random test_package

1. (done) https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_callable_traits
2. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_compatibility
3. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_config
4. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_predef
5. (in progress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_preprocessor
6. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_assert
7. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_io
8. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_mp11
9. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_static_assert
10. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_vmd
11. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_winapi
12. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_core
13. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_throw_exception
14. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_align
15. (done) https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_array
16. (done) https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_bind
17. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_integer
18. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_logic
19. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_move
20. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_type_traits
21. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_crc
22. (in progress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_smart_ptr
23. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_tuple
24. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_level5group
25. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_concept_check
26. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_conversion
27. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_detail
28. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_function
29. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_function_types
30. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_functional
31. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_fusion
32. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_iterator
33. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_mpl
34. (done/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_optional
35. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_type_index
36. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_typeof
37. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_utility
38. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_any
39. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_endian
40. (done) https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_format
41. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_gil
42. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_hana
43. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_intrusive
44. (inprogress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_lambda
45. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_multi_array
46. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_numeric_conversion
47. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_numeric_interval
48. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_polygon
49. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_qvm
50. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_rational
51. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_scope_exit
52. (inprogress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_tokenizer
53. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_tti
54. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_local_function
55. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_range
56. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_ratio
57. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_circular_buffer
58. (done) https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_foreach
59. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_lexical_cast
60. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_proto
61. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_unordered
62. (done/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_algorithm
63. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_phoenix
64. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_variant
65. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_xpressive
66. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_multiprecision
67. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_parameter
68. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_heap
69. (inprogress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_lockfree
70. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_metaparse
71. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_pool
72. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_spirit
73. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_convert
74. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_dll
75. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_dynamic_bitset
76. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_geometry
77. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_icl
78. (inprogress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_interprocess
79. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_msm
80. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_multi_index
81. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_numeric_ublas
82. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_ptr_container
83. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_sort
84. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_statechart
85. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_units
86. (done/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_uuid
87. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_accumulators
88. (in progress)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_assign
89. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_coroutine2
90. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_flyweight
91. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_poly_collection
92. (inprogress/sourcedelica)https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_property_tree
93. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_signals
94. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_asio
95. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_bimap
96. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_compute
97. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_disjoint_sets
98. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_property_map
99. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_beast
100. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_numeric_odeint
101. https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-boost_process