Summary

In this chapter, we got an overview of the Boost C++ libraries and set up a development environment for us, which should help us to easily build and run C++ programs, using Boost libraries that we will learn in the rest of the book.

In the next chapter, we will learn a variety of techniques using different Boost libraries, which simplify some common day-to-day programming tasks and set us up for the heavy lifting to be done in the later chapters.