Re: [Boost-users] boost::asio from C++ Forms App in VS 2010

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::asio from C++ Forms App in VS 2010
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-01 09:12:58

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-users-
> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Lars Viklund
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:30 PM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::asio from C++ Forms App in VS 2010
> 
> You are probably misunderstanding the situation. The OP is using
> C++/CLI, the Microsoft C++ dialect used for gluing C and C++ code to the
> managed world. He is not using the usual native C++ projects, which are _very_
> well supported by Boost.
> 
> Most of Boost (thread, asio, shared_ptr, heck - most of it) does not build or
> work cleanly under C++/CLI. I guess that it's implicitly assumed to be known that
> C++/CLI isn't C++, and shouldn't be expected to compile most of modern C++
> code, particularly not something as workaround-happy as Boost.

FWIW It's not quite as bad as you are painting.

The large Boost.Math  library *does* compile,
and compiles under managed C++/CLI to build a Boost.Math dll.

A .Net project in C# and using VS net framework links with the Boost.Math dll to provide the windows display feature for a Statistical Distribution Explorer Windows utility (so you can look up students_ts etc to your heart's content).

To my surprise, /CLI worked without any trouble at all did what it said on the tin.

But other Boost libraries may well not work at all with /CLI.

Paul

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