Re: [Boost-users] boost + linux + mingw ( g++: unrecognized option `-pthread' , cannot find -lrt )

From: sfinks (sfinks2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-27 02:01:14

Larry Smith wrote:

> sfinks wrote:
> 
>>hasn't anyone really at least tried to compile boost with linux+mingw ?
> 
> 
> No.  Why would one do that, since mingw is
> for Windows, not Linux?
> 
> On linux we use the gcc/g++ provided with the distro.
> 
> On Windows we use MSVC v7 & v8.  My personal machine
> is setup for dual-boot (Windows on the first physical drive,
> various Linux distro's on the other physical drives).
> I've never tried mingw on Windows, but here is its
> definition from the MinGW home page:
> 
>  "A collection of freely available and freely distributable
>  Windows specific header files and import libraries combined
>  with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows
>  programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs."
> 
> I would expect nothing but trouble tyring to use mingw
> on non-Windows platforms.
> 
> Larry

For example VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 
http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/Win32Compile ) is officialy compiled 
with linux+mingw . wxWidgets ( wxMSW, http://www.wxwidgets.org/ ) 
compiles from out-of-the-box under mingw, and compiled examples all run 
ideally. So no trouble acctually ...