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 - GCC (>=5.1)
 - CMake (>=3.17)
 - GNU Make (>=3.79) or Ninja (>=1.10)
+- Boost (on Ubuntu the package `libboost-all-dev` satisfies this requirement)
 
 ### Building HPVM