Re: [Boost-users] strange filesystem dll behaviour

From: Paul (elegant_dice_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-19 20:39:43

 --- Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote: 
> At 04:46 AM 1/19/2005, Paul wrote:
> 
>  >I'm having killer problems with the filesystem library.
>  >
>  >I'm compiling it with bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw", which seems to work
> just
>  >fine.  All the tests pass etc.
>  >
>  >Then I wrote this simple program:...
> 
> I'm guessing BOOST_POSIX is getting defined, so you need to define 
> BOOST_WINDOWS if you want the Windows rather POSIX behavior. See 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm#Cgywin for
> discussion.
> 
> There have been past reports of problems with Cygwin; perhaps mingw
> has 
> similar issues.

I tried this by editing the mingw-tools.jam file and adding
-DBOOST_WINDOWS (and also -D__WIN32__), its the same behaviour.  Note I
also set the define while compiling my own test cpp files.

Plus, the BOOST_PLATFORM #define was originally (and correctly) set to
WIN32.  I printed it out just like the filesystem-test does it.

The puzzling thing is it works fine with libboost_file....lib, but not
with boost_file....dll yet it was compiled using the same bjam and the
same toolset?

ideas?
thanks
Paul

Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.
http://au.movies.yahoo.com