How to determine the Boost version on a system?

Question

Is there a quick way to determine the version of the Boost C++ libraries on a system?

Answer 1

I stugeled to find out the boost version number in bash.

Ended up doing following, which stores the version code in a variable, supressing the errors. This uses the example from maxschlepzig in the comments of the accepted answer. (Can not comment, don't have 50 Rep)

I know this has been answered long time ago. But I couldn't find how to do it in bash anywhere. So I thought this might help someone with the same problem. Also this should work no matter where boost is installed, as long as the comiler can find it. And it will give you the version number that is acutally used by the comiler, when you have multiple versions installed.

{
VERS=$(echo -e '#include <boost/version.hpp>\nBOOST_VERSION' | gcc -s -x c++ -E - | grep "^[^#;]")
} &> /dev/null

Answer 2

If one installed boost on macOS via Homebrew, one is likely to see the installed boost version(s) with:

ls /usr/local/Cellar/boost*

Answer 3

Depending on how you have installed boost and what OS you are running you could also try the following:

dpkg -s libboost-dev | grep 'Version'

Answer 4

@Vertexwahns answer, but written in bash. For the people who are lazy:

boost_version=$(cat /usr/include/boost/version.hpp | grep define | grep "BOOST_VERSION " | cut -d' ' -f3)
echo "installed boost version: $(echo "$boost_version / 100000" | bc).$(echo "$boost_version / 100 % 1000" | bc).$(echo "$boost_version % 100 " | bc)"

Gives me installed boost version: 1.71.0

Answer 5

Boost Informational Macros. You need: BOOST_VERSION

Answer 6

#include <boost/version.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

int main()
{
    std::cout << "Boost version: " 
          << BOOST_VERSION / 100000
          << "."
          << BOOST_VERSION / 100 % 1000
          << "."
          << BOOST_VERSION % 100 
          << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Update: the answer has been fixed.