In this recipe, we rely on Boost being installed on the system and so the CMake code tries to detect the corresponding library. Alternatively, we could have shipped the Boost sources together with our project and build this dependency as part of the project. Boost is a portable way to interface Python with C(++). The portability with respect to compiler support and C++ standard however comes at a price: Boost.Python is not a lightweight dependency. In the following recipe, we will discuss a lightweight alternative to Boost.Python.
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