Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess]: build on Solaris?

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-05 14:56:48

Wolfgang Hottgenroth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> is it true, that boost::interprocess will only built on i386 and 
> especially not on Solaris? We got this, when building 
> boost::interprocess on Solaris
> 
> #error No atomic operations implemented for this platform, sorry!

If the system does not offer process-shared POSIX mutexes and condition 
variables (detected using _POSIX_THREAD_PROCESS_SHARED macro) a rough 
atomic library is used to emulate process-shared synchronization objects 
using spinlocks. The supported platforms are i386 and powerpc with gcc.

Do you know if your Solaris system supports process-shared mutexes? 
Maybe I'm not detecting it properly. If this is not true, I would be 
glad if anyone could write the SPARC version of the atomic functions.

Regards,

Ion