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

In my case, I had to create a soft link in my dir /usr/include/

ln -s python3.5m python3.5

the probleme was that i was using python 3.5 but only the python3.5m directory was existing so it wasn't able to find the pyconfig.h file.