Re: [boost] [Windows 8 Apps]

Subject: Re: [boost] [Windows 8 Apps]
From: Johannes Sartisohn (jsartisohn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-11 06:05:17

So, just for the record, there is currently no support for building boost for Windos 8/Store/Metro Apps (using the WinRT API), and the plans to support it are far from concrete.

Sadly I cannot offer to work on the patches, since the we decided to remove the boost dependencies from our codebase.
But for the ones willing to dive in, this is a good starting point:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205762.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211377.aspx

As Vicente said, the main things that are broken are Boost.Thread and Boost.Chrono, but Boost.Filesystem also needs a good look.
And if you want to jump right into the code, build boost with the following commandline params:

.\b2 cxxflags="-DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_FAMILY_APP -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0602" linkflags="/APPCONTAINER"

Ceers

Johannes