Re: [Boost-build] Boost 1.43.0 seems to produce broken libraries with MinGw version 4.5.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Boost 1.43.0 seems to produce broken libraries with MinGw version 4.5.0
From: Peter Rockett (p.rockett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-16 07:35:49

  In addition, we have observed that attempting to link against the 
(seemingly) broken libraries produces a series of extra warning messages 
which do not appear when linking against the 4.4.0-built libs. See the 
attached screen shot. These may help in diagnosing what is wrong.

Peter

On 15/07/10 22:30, Peter Rockett wrote:
>  We have been trying to build Boost 1.43.0 using MinGW. (Actually we 
> have been trying to build a package which relies on Boost.) We have 
> encountered some weird problems with the ultimate package, which made 
> us investigate the Boost libraries we were building. Minimally, we 
> have used:
>
> bjam --toolset=gcc install
>
> although we have also explicitly specified link= static, and 
> runtime-link=shared, etc.
>
> Basically:
>
> 1) The build process with MinGW 4.5.0 appears to complete without 
> error but any programs which use the resulting Boost libs crash 
> immediately with what looks like an issue with loading a shared lib. 
> We have tried running the Boost execution monitor test example but 
> this fails.
>
> 2) Repeating the process with MinGW 4.4.0 produces working programs 
> and the execution monitor example works fine.
>
> Therefore, we conclude that the libraries built with MinGW 4.5.0 are 
> broken. MinGW 4.4.0 seems to produce good libs.
>
> Could someone advise if they have had success with building with gcc 
> 4.5.0 on, say, Linux. Or is this just a problem with MinGW 4.5.0?
>
>
> Peter
>
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