[Boost-users] help needed picking up pthread.h with Visual Studio .NET 2003

From: Andrew Marlow (Andrew.Marlow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-28 08:13:56

I am trying to build boost 1.33.1 on Windoze using Visual Studio
.NET 2003 (aka vc71). This seems to be build just fine using the
default settings (bjam -sTOOLS=vc-7_1) but I need to do the
build such that a win32 port of pthreads can be picked up.
I need some help with this please.

Eventually I hacked boost/config/platform/win32.hpp,
and added "#define BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS".
Is this what we are expected to do?
I could find no help in this particular area of configuration.
This hack does indeed make it try to #include <pthread.h>
but I don't know how to tell the build where to look
for this header. Hence, I now get loads of compilation errors.

My app uses a proprietary library that is built on
the win32 port of pthreads. So in order for my app
to use boost I need it to work with the win32 port
of pthreads that the proprietary library was built with.
This means picking up pthread.h from the proprietary
library source directory, rather than picking it up
from std places. How is this done please?

Regards,

Andrew Marlow
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