Re: [boost] Re: Building Boost on Linux

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-14 00:29:13

On 2002-03-14 at 05:24 AM, conic_at_[hidden] (simonwlb) wrote:

>--- In boost_at_y..., Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_a...> wrote:
>> At 05:07 PM 3/13/2002, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>> 
>>  >> No, straight install from the distribution disk.  Here is the 
>portion 
>> of
>>  >> the script that does the mount:
>>  >>
>>  >>    if ! mount -t smbfs //p-500/c /p-500; then
>>  >>      echo 'mount //p-500/c failed'
>>  >>      exit 1
>>  >>    fi
>>  >
>>  >Aha... You're using Samba rather than mounting them as NTFS 
>partitions.
>> 
>> Whatever works:-)  I did it that way because I simply didn't know 
>enough 
>> about Linux to do it any other way.  It was pretty impressive that 
>I had a 
>> operating system I'd never used before installed, gcc built, jam 
>built, two 
>> libraries built, a dozen programs built, and everything passing 
>regression 
>> tests in a day or so of work.
>> 
>> --Beman
>
>OK this is hardly boost-related but...
>
>I'm now linking my library (.a file) and libboost_thread.a into an 
>executable.  Everything compiles but the linker isn't seeing pthread 
>stuff.  Not suprising since I don't have a clue how to tell gcc to 
>link the MT runtime stuff.  Can someone spoil me with the answer to 
>that one?

I suggest you take a look at tools/build/gcc-tools.jam it has all the various
flags used for gcc. The one you are interested in is "-pthread".

If you are using boost.build for you compiles you would just add a
<threading>multi to your target :-) But I'm guessing you aren't using jam.

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