Re: [boost] [1.45] Thread issues

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.45] Thread issues
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-21 18:41:46

Bryce Lelbach <admin_at_[hidden]> writes:

> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3847
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3882
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4614
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4632
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4258
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4736
>
> A few of these are related or similiar in nature. Long story short, Boost.Thread
> has some rather serious issues on mingw. One report indicates that statically
> linking Boost.Thread with VC8 and VC10 is broken.

I intend to look at these tomorrow. I haven't touched mingw in a while,
and the recent mingw releases appear to have changed the way things
work. I have not encountered any problems with static linking with MSVC,
but I will see if I can reproduce the problems.

Anthony
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