Boost 1.82.0 installation issue on Windows

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Hi,
We need to install the boost package to bind a c++ lib to python. I have installed the latest miniconda:

 active environment : test
active env location : C:\Users\gilles.faure\.conda\envs\test
        shell level : 2
   user config file : C:\Users\gilles.faure\.condarc

populated config files : C:\Users\gilles.faure.condarc
conda version : 24.7.1
conda-build version : not installed
python version : 3.12.4.final.0
solver : libmamba (default)
virtual packages : __archspec=1=skylake
__conda=24.7.1=0
__cuda=12.4=0
__win=0=0
base environment : C:\miniconda3 (read only)
conda av data dir : C:\miniconda3\etc\conda
conda av metadata url : None
channel URLs : main/win-64
main/noarch
r/win-64
r/noarch
package cache : C:\miniconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\gilles.faure.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\gilles.faure\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Users\gilles.faure.conda\envs
C:\miniconda3\envs
C:\Users\gilles.faure\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/24.7.1 requests/2.32.3 CPython/3.12.4 Windows/11 Windows/10.0.22631 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/24.7.0 libmambapy/1.5.8 aau/0.4.4 c/. s/. e/.
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : False

Our binding project fails to compile because the header file “\Library\include\boost\python.hpp” is missing. The linux packages has got this file.
So I took a copy of this file from another folder. The project can compile now but the link is failing. I think this is because boost_python cmake (Library\lib\cmake\boost_python-1.82.0) is missing. Again this cmake exists in the linux version.

FYI, The boost package from conda-forge is 1.85.0 and has got the 2 files above. Our project is compiling and linking fine with this version.

How can we get an updated version of boost in the conda channel?

I think I could get the boost package from conda-forge but our environment needs matplotlib too and I think they are conflicting.

Is it ok to mix packages from conda and conda-forge?