Re: [Boost-build] Build boost libraries - boost newbie

From: Henri Raath (henri.raath_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-04 16:49:48

Thanks for that, it was a great help - put me on the right track.
(I still had to do a lot of digging but found that the parameter
address-model=64
was what I wanted)

I also discovered a bug/omission :
When compiling for AMD64, size_t is an unsigned __int64 in MS Visual Studio
(i.e. unsigned long long). Boost does not map this to an MPI data type, so
boost\mpi does not compile in 64-bit mode. This is essential because using
Microsoft's MPI implementation, one's programs should ideally be compiled to
64-bit.

I found the missing code #if 0'ed out in boost_1_35_0\boost\mpi\datatype.hpp
+-line 255 - 265 (Doxygen ???). So I fixed this by commenting out the #if 0. 
:$

Regards
Henri