Re: [boost] [thread] Can't use boost/thread/mutex.hpp without boost_system

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] Can't use boost/thread/mutex.hpp without boost_system
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-23 15:00:43

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Vicente Botet <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> Beman Dawes wrote
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba
> > &lt;vicente.botet@&gt; wrote:
> >>... Please, can you take a look at this thread
> >>
> http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/system-chrono-header-only-libs-tt2992903.html
> ?
> >> I proposed in it a patch to make Boost.System header-only, and I gues it
> >> avoid all these concerns.
> >
> > That thread ends by you saying "I will try to manage with the
> > inclusion of <windows.h> as proposed by Anthony, following the way is
> > done in &lt;boost/thread/win32/thread_primitives.hpp&gt;. "
> >
>
>
> This was not the last message. I see one from 06/Jan/2011 on which you say
> "Vicente Botet's header-only option for Boost.System is mostly working,
> and will be ready to commit to trunk soon."
>
> I don't remember exactly why we didn't do the commit, I need to check the
> private mails I exchanged with you.
>

Hum... Maybe that's the source of the vague memory I have of a problem with
some client library.

>
>
>
> > Have you now done that?  Did you run into any problems?  What testing
> > have you done?
> >
>
> Anyway, the last state I know of is on the sandbox
>
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/chrono/boost/system/detail/inlined/
>
> and
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/chrono/libs/system/src/
>
> I guess that I run the regression test on Boost.System. Maybe the test
> should be extended to other libraries using Boost.System.
>

I'm hesitant to volunteer, with the Kona C++ committee meeting less than
two weeks away, but if you send me patches against trunk I'll try them here.

--Beman