That is incorrrect. Boost has binary libraries you link to statically or dynamically depending which parts of boost you use. _Most_ of boost is header only.

If you cannot get it to build yourself, it is also distributed as pre built binaries

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/

and even easier, you can use NuGet to get boost as a nuget package.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Sergei Nikulov via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:

2017-04-07 9:38 GMT+03:00 Balázs Bámer via Boost-users
<boost-users@lists.boost.org>:
> Hi All,
>
> I have downloaded Boost 1.63 the second time. On my home computer, building
> it yielded all libraries. However, I do similar now at work, and it won't
> build Asio.
>

It's header only, AFAIK.
So it is nothing to build.
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