Ubuntu - Linking boost.python - Fatal error: pyconfig cannot be found

Question

Having some issues, now I have read the following:

hello world python extension in c++ using boost?

I have tried installing boost onto my desktop, and, done

Answer 1

I had a similar experience when building boost for centos7. I was not able to find pyconfig.h on my system only pyconfig-64.h.

After searching around I found that you need to install python-devel to get pyconfig.h