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Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook

Recipes to simplify your application development

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Anton Polukhin Alekseevic  
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|Sep 2025
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Learn to build applications faster and better by leveraging the real power of Boost and C++

Key Features

  • Learn to use the Boost libraries to simplify your application development
  • Learn to develop high quality, fast and portable applications
  • Learn the relations between Boost and C++11/C++4/C++17

Book Description

If you want to take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ and avoid the confusion about which library to use in which situation, then this book is for you.

Beginning with the basics of Boost C++, you will move on to learn how the Boost libraries simplify application development. You will learn to convert data such as string to numbers, numbers to string, numbers to numbers and more. Managing resources will become a piece of cake. You’ll see what kind of work can be done at compile time and what Boost containers can do. You will learn everything for the development of high quality fast and portable applications. Write a program once and then you can use it on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android operating systems. From manipulating images to graphs, directories, timers, files, networking – everyone will find an interesting topic.
Be sure that knowledge from this book won’t get outdated, as more and more Boost libraries become part of the C++ Standard.

What you will learn

  • Get familiar with new data types for everyday use
  • Use smart pointers to manage resources
  • Get to grips with compile-time computations and assertions
  • Use Boost libraries for multithreading
  • Learn about parallel execution of different task
  • Perform common string-related tasks using Boost libraries
  • Split all the processes, computations, and interactions to tasks and process them independently
  • Learn the basics of working with graphs, stacktracing, testing and interprocess communications
  • Explore different helper macros used to detect compiler, platform and Boost features

Who this book is for

This book is for developers looking to improve their knowledge of Boost and who would like to simplify their application development processes. Prior C++ knowledge and basic knowledge of the standard library is assumed.

Table of Contents

  1. STARTING TO WRITE YOUR APPLICATION
  2. MANAGING RESOURCES
  3. CONVERTING AND CASTING
  4. COMPILE-TIME TRICKS
  5. MULTITHREADING
  6. MANIPULATING TASKS
  7. MANIPULATING STRINGS
  8. METAPROGRAMMING
  9. CONTAINERS
  10. GATHERING PLATFORM AND COMPILER INFORMATION
  11. WORKING WITH THE SYSTEM
  12. SCRATCHING THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78728-483-8
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 438
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Programming and languages

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