Re: [boost] [Windows 8 Apps]

Subject: Re: [boost] [Windows 8 Apps]
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-09 18:08:50

Le 04/10/12 18:48, Johannes Sartisohn a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've searched the boost website and the mailing list archives back to january and didn't find any helpful information on my subject.
> My question is whether there are plans to support compiling the boost library for Windows 8 using only the WinRT APIs. That is, to support boost for Windows Store/Metro Style apps in Windows 8.
> Or is there already a way (e.g. via preprocessor direcitve) that I didn't find, to disable the unsupported Win32 API calls when compiling on Windows?
>
>
Hi,

I don't know the differences between Windows 8 / WinRT and Win32. Any 
patch for Boost.Chrono and Boost.Thread is welcome.
In addition we will need a regular Tester for this platform, otherwise 
it will be impossible to check if the patches work as expected.

Best,
Vicente