You can always compile boost and install it locally, the full 64bit version only takes about 100MB: $ du -hsc boost/1.45.0/* 68M boost/1.45.0/include

You can always compile boost and install it locally, the full 64bit version only takes about 100MB: $ du -hsc boost/1.45.0/* 68M boost/1.45.0/include 37M boost/1.45.0/lib 104M total Add cmake/autoconf and it's fairly trivial to make it work with your software or even ship it with your source code: after all the Boost license is fairly permissive.