To use these rules, add the following to your WORKSPACE file:

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

_RULES_BOOST_COMMIT = "652b21e35e4eeed5579e696da0facbe8dba52b1f"

http_archive(
    name = "com_github_nelhage_rules_boost",
    sha256 = "c1b8b2adc3b4201683cf94dda7eef3fc0f4f4c0ea5caa3ed3feffe07e1fb5b15",
    strip_prefix = "rules_boost-%s" % _RULES_BOOST_COMMIT,
    urls = [
        "https://github.com/nelhage/rules_boost/archive/%s.tar.gz" % _RULES_BOOST_COMMIT,
    ],
)

load("@com_github_nelhage_rules_boost//:boost/boost.bzl", "boost_deps")
boost_deps()

You can then use libraries in deps through the @boost repository, for example @boost//:algorithm.

Based in part on rules from https://github.com/mzhaom/trunk.

These rules implement support for Boost ASIO's SSL support. To use ASIO-SSL, you must depend on the "@boost//:asio_ssl" target, instead of "@boost//:asio". ASIO-SSL depends on OpenSSL; By default, rules_boost will download and build a recent BoringSSL commit; To use a different OpenSSL implementation, create a remote named openssl before calling boost_deps. This remote must make available OpenSSL's libssl at @openssl//:ssl.

To enable io_uring for asio, use --@boost//:asio_has_io_uring. Optionally, pass--@boost//:asio_disable_epoll to use io_uring for all operations.

Boost Beast uses beast::string_view for things like request/response headers, which by default is a type alias of boost::string_view. If you're using a C++17 compiler that supports std::string_view you can use --@boost//:beast_use_std_string_view to make beast::string_view instead be a type alias of std::string_view.