Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Filesystem] Program can't run under Win 98

From: Todd Greer (TGreer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-13 18:04:21

On Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:27 AM
Trigve Siver said:

> I've got a problem running application that uses boost.filesystem on
win
> 98. I'm compiling it on Win XP SP2. The problem is the CreateHardLinkA
> function. It seems that this functions was added lately to
kernel32.dll
> (Windows 2000 I think). Is there any solution to resolve this problem?

> Anyway I don't use any links operations from boost.filesystem so I
don't 
> care about this function. I'm using boost 1.34. With boost 1.33.1 
> everything was working fine ( I think there wasn't code for link 
> operations).

It would appear that #defining _WIN32_WINNT to 0x400 or less when
compiling the filesystem library should exclude that code (and some
related code with the same problem). I believe this can be done by
setting cxxflags to -D_WIN32_WINNT when building, but I haven't tried it
myself, and don't know much about the boost build system.

Unless this problem is fixed for 1.34.1, I'll be learning the details
myself in a few weeks, as it will otherwise block our upgrading.

Have you filed a bug report at svn.boost.org?

-- 
Todd