diff --git a/Fit/Minimizer/MultiOption.h b/Fit/Minimizer/MultiOption.h
index 36f16756bb5323dc37a269af1b57f4d51ea0fb47..a622efe24ea8012830c1912f0f5e4383c19d21ce 100644
--- a/Fit/Minimizer/MultiOption.h
+++ b/Fit/Minimizer/MultiOption.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 //! @brief The MultiOption class is intended to store a single option for minimization
 //! algorithm. Int, double, string values are available.
 //! Relies on boost::variant, will be switched to std::variant in C++-17.
-//! (before was https://github.com/mapbox/variant).
+//! (before was https://github.com/mapbox/variant.
 
 class BA_CORE_API_ MultiOption
 {
diff --git a/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.cpp b/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.cpp
index c4a35a0b1112126e2af7ad3626624272eef0289f..6aafbf4bf76dc9cb5c07942b346ac676440bbeb5 100644
--- a/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.cpp
+++ b/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.cpp
@@ -230,5 +230,14 @@ QVector<double> fromStdVector(const std::vector<double> &data)
     return result;
 }
 
+QStringList fromStdStrings(const std::vector<std::string> &container)
+{
+    QStringList result;
+    for(std::string str : container) {
+        result.append(QString::fromStdString(str));
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
 
 } // namespace GUIHelpers
diff --git a/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.h b/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.h
index 095fd7bf6c96b7b4a25a859426c2da98b30adfbe..3ae3cb38aea6f8aef222f2f7391d59f5a6827b13 100644
--- a/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.h
+++ b/GUI/coregui/utils/GUIHelpers.h
@@ -69,15 +69,7 @@ BA_CORE_API_ bool isVersionMatchMinimal(const QString &version, const QString &m
 
 BA_CORE_API_ QString currentDateTime();
 
-template<class T>
-BA_CORE_API_ QStringList fromStdStrings(const T &container)
-{
-    QStringList result;
-    for(std::string str : container) {
-        result.append(QString::fromStdString(str));
-    }
-    return result;
-}
+BA_CORE_API_ QStringList fromStdStrings(const std::vector<std::string> &container);
 
 BA_CORE_API_ QVector<double> fromStdVector(const std::vector<double> &data);
 
diff --git a/Tests/UnitTests/Fit/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/UnitTests/Fit/CMakeLists.txt
index af8ef7fbd617147460a43bf45a7e90ca2fdc049e..048d75e17a4876caad1627a4ceef17884f05ec21 100644
--- a/Tests/UnitTests/Fit/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Tests/UnitTests/Fit/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ include_directories(
     ${BornAgainCore_INCLUDE_DIRS}
     ${BornAgainFit_INCLUDE_DIRS}
     ${EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR}
+    ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}
     ${RootMinimizers_INCLUDE_DIRS}
     ${gtest_SOURCE_DIR}
     ${gtest_SOURCE_DIR}/include