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As of this writing, MM is using the Boost 1.40 release. There are reasonably complete instructions here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

Unless your compiler is different than the one supplied with the Mac XCode Dev tools, just follow the instructions in section 5.1 of Getting Started Guide for Unix Variants. The configuration and building of the latest source couldn't be easier, and it took all about. Windows 10 comes with the older Windows-only edition (version 5.1), but you can download the latest PowerShell (7) on GitHub. Assuming you have a newer PC, you'll want to download PowerShell-7.1.1-win-x64.msi which is the 64-bit Windows installer.

Briefly:

1. Download boost 1.40.0
2. tar --bzip2 -xf /path/to/boost_1_40_0.tar.bz2
3. ./bootstrap.sh, (to build the bjam tool)
4. Now to build only the libraries needed by Micro-Manager (a huge time saver), do:

sudo ./bjam --install --link=static --runtime-link=static --threading=multi --layout=tagged --with-system --with-thread --with-iostreams --with-date_time

(Now when building micromanager, configure should have the flag:
--with-boost-libdir=/path/to/your/boost/libs)

If you wish to build Universal Binaries, you will need to build boost separately for each architecture. You can do so with the following build script:

# Note: build for ppc and i386 should be with g++4.0. Build for x86_64 should be with g++4.2.
# to accomplish this, the file tools/build/v2/user-config.jam should contain the following two lines:
# using darwin : 4.0 : g++-4.0 ;
#
# using darwin : 4.2 : g++-4.2 ;
sudo ./bjam --install --build-dir=ppc --toolset=darwin --link=static --runtime-link=static --threading=multi --layout=tagged --prefix=/usr/local/ppc architecture=power address-model=32 macosx-version-min=10.4 --with-system --with-thread --with-iostreams --with-date_time --libdir=/usr/local/ppc/lib --includedir=/usr/local/ppc/include --stagedir=/usr/local/ppc
sudo ./bjam --install --build-dir=i386 --toolset=darwin --link=static --runtime-link=static --threading=multi --layout=tagged --prefix=/usr/local/i386 architecture=x86 address-model=32 macosx-version-min=10.4 --with-system --with-thread --with-iostreams --with-date_time --libdir=/usr/local/i386/lib --includedir=/usr/local/i386/include --stagedir=/usr/local/i386
sudo ./bjam --install --build-dir=x86_64 --toolset=darwin-4.2 --link=static --runtime-link=static --threading=multi --layout=tagged --prefix=/usr/local/x86_64 architecture=x86 address-model=64 macosx-version-min=10.5 --with-system --with-thread --with-iostreams --with-date_time --libdir=/usr/local/x86_64/lib --includedir=/usr/local/x86_64/include --stagedir=/usr/local/x86_64

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