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Boost is a large, peer-reviewed collection of portable C++ libraries that both fills gaps in the standard library and serves as a proving ground for features—many of which (like smart pointers, regex, and filesystem) later get adopted into the C++ standard itself.

Precompiled Boost 1.90.0 XCFramework for arm64 iOS devices and arm64/x86_64 iOS Simulator. Includes all headers, compiled-component inventories, CMake and pkg-config metadata.

Included compiled libraries

  • boost_chrono — Compiled date and time duration support.
  • boost_date_time — Compiled date/time library retained for build compatibility.
  • boost_filesystem — Compiled Filesystem v4 support.
  • boost_graph — Compiled Graph algorithms.
  • boost_locale — Compiled localization backends without optional ICU packaging.
  • boost_random — Compiled random_device implementation.
  • boost_thread — Portable threading primitives.
  • boost_context — Architecture-specific fcontext implementation.
  • boost_nowide — Compiled UTF-8 adapters.
  • boost_json — Compiled parser and DOM support.
  • boost_serialization — Compiled archive support.
  • boost_url — Compiled URL parser.
  • boost_container — Compiled polymorphic memory resources.
  • boost_log — Compiled logging core and setup support.
  • boost_stacktrace — Compiled portable basic backend only.
  • boost_timer — Compiled CPU timer.
  • boost_type_erasure — Compiled dynamic binding support.
  • boost_cobalt — Compiled C++20 coroutine library carried forward from Boost 1.84.
  • boost_charconv — Compiled locale-independent numeric conversion library required by Boost.MySQL.

All Boost headers are included. Header-only facilities remain available even
when their related compiled library is not part of the combined static binary.

Release features and exclusions

Boost 1.90.0 was released on December 10, 2025. This package remains on C++20
with an iOS 12.0 deployment target.

New libraries

Boost.OpenMethod provides open multiple dispatch for C++17 and newer. Its
headers are packaged and receive deterministic most-specific-overrider runtime
coverage without adding a static archive.

Packaged libraries

The Boost 1.89 compiled set carries forward unchanged. Boost.System remains
header-only, while Charconv, Cobalt, and the portable basic Stacktrace backend
remain compiled. Redis retains its separate-compilation consumer model. Process
v2 remains excluded pending dedicated iOS process-spawning validation.

Validation scope

The complete earlier regression suite is retained. Release-specific coverage
adds Boost.OpenMethod dispatch. Three-slice packaging, standalone XCFramework,
SwiftPM, local CocoaPods, and the complete runtime suite on an arm64 Simulator
and physical arm64 iOS device pass.

Device and Simulator validation

Current target status:

  • official source SHA-256 verification: passed;
  • Boost 1.90 compatibility patch dry-run: passed;
  • Boost.OpenMethod upstream build-model audit: passed (header-only interface
    target requiring C++17);
  • three-slice archive validation: passed (device arm64, Simulator arm64 and
    x86_64);
  • Charconv archive and Simulator arm64/x86_64 symbol validation: passed;
  • Apple device-slice libquadmath absence check: passed;
  • standalone XCFramework example validation: passed for device arm64 and
    Simulator arm64/x86_64;
  • SwiftPM packaging validation: passed for arm64 and x86_64 Simulator;
  • local CocoaPods consumer-project validation: passed;
  • generic Simulator and device Xcode builds: passed, as reported by the
    maintainer;
  • arm64 iOS Simulator runtime suite: passed with ALL TESTS PASSED;
  • physical arm64 iOS device runtime suite: passed with ALL TESTS PASSED, as
    reported by the maintainer.

Only checks observed locally, reported by the maintainer, or proven in CI are
recorded as passed.

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