[Boost-users] embedded platform setup help, please

From: Garrett Weinberg (weinberg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 11:47:59

Hi all,

I'm trying to use a few header-only Boost libraries in an embedded 
environment -- to be specific, an SH4 platform that runs Windows CE.NET 
4.2.  My IDE is Embedded Visual C++ 4.0.

My minimal "hello world" does nothing interesting but instantiating a 
simple boost::shared_array of chars.

I get the following unresolved external when linking:

minimal.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__InterlockedDecrement referenced in function "public: void __cdecl 
boost::detail::sp_counted_base::release(void)" 
(?release_at_sp_counted_base_at_detail@boost@@QAAXXZ)
SH4Rel/minimal.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

Further information:

My compiler /? output is: "Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Vers. 
12.20.9518 for Hitachi SH"

This compiler does support Exceptions and RTTI when you turn on the 
right switches (/GX and /GR, respectively), provided that you link 
against a library that has also been custom-built (using WinCE Platform 
Builder) to support these features (the default CE 4.2 SDK's lib does not).

I have tried the WinCE 4.2's (limited) native C++/STL as well as STLPort 
-only and Dinkumware-only implementations.  I get the same unresolved 
external in each case.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance,

Garrett