Re: [boost] Using Boost.Threads

From: Pete Becker (petebecker_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-11 18:38:43

At 05:28 PM 6/11/2002 -0600, Chuck Allison wrote:
>After all this time, I'm finally getting around to using Boost for the first
>time. My initial interest is in Boost.Threads (Bruce Eckel and I would like
>to use it in Volume 2 of Thinking in C++). I configured Boost for Borland
>and tried to do Bill's sample program in Listing 2 of his May CUJ article
>(page 10). Everything compiles, but I get an unresolved symbol error for
>"__beginthreadex", which actually sounds like a Microsoft name to me, hence
>my puzzlement. What exactly do I need to link with, besides the thread
>library itself? Thanks.

You have to tell the Borland compiler that you're building a multi-threaded 
program:

-tWM

        -- Pete

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