[Boost-users] boost in a mixed CLR assemby

From: Daniel J. Kelly (djkelly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-31 12:16:41

I realize it is not officially supported, but has anyone had success using
boost libraries in a mixed CLR assembly? I am using visual studio 2005. I
have been trying to accomplish this in an applicatation that has a Windows
Forms front end, whose enire back end is build of libraries written in
standard C++, making extensive use of boost, especially smart pointers and
threads.
 
The specific problem I am having involved initializing static variables.
For instance, I have a global variable:
    boost::mutex osmutex;
The program compiles and links fine, but during static initialization, I
receive an error indicating _CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData) is invalid.
Looking at the stack unwind, the calling code is the "dynamic initializer
for 'osmutex'".  My suspicion is that the boost library is linking to a
different run time library than my mixed code, and that the pointer being
rejected is happening as a result of it coming from a different heap. 
 
I would like try to check this hypothesis by building boost forcing it to
link to the correct C++ runtime library used by mixed assemblies
(msvcmrtd.dll), but I am not familar enough with the boost build system to
do this.