Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #9124: Boost.Thread using of _beginthreadex prohibits its use on Windows Store application

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #9124: Boost.Thread using of _beginthreadex prohibits its use on Windows Store application
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-29 11:38:31

#9124: Boost.Thread using of _beginthreadex prohibits its use on Windows Store
application
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  Reporter:  beholder@…               |      Owner:  johnmaddock
      Type:  Bugs                     |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  To Be Determined         |  Component:  config
   Version:  Boost Development Trunk  |   Severity:  Problem
Resolution:                           |   Keywords:
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Comment (by johnmaddock):

 I've done some digging, and:

 * It appears that {{{__cplusplus_winrt}}} is defined when building with
 /ZW can you confirm that?
 * Simply disabling BOOST_HAS_THREADEX doesn't seem the correct solution:
 calling that API is required in order to correctly initialize the C++
 runtime library, in any case http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-

 us/library/windows/apps/jj606124.aspx indicates that '''all''' the Windows
 Thread API functions are missing/deprecated on that platform, and that the
 C# components should be used instead :(

 So I don't really see that there's a quick/easy fix here.  Maybe we should
 disable threading support altogether for that platform?  Except that would
 disable thread safety/synchronization support as well, and I don't see
 mutex support in the C# primitives - is code supposed to still use the
 regular Windows API's for that?  Or perhaps we should be using
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd492843.aspx?  Either way it
 seems like Boost.Threads would need a significant rewrite to support this
 stuff.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9124#comment:14>
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