[Boost-users] [thread] Including boost/thread/mutex.hpp breaks .NET applications

From: Boris (boriss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-10 06:05:51

Is the following problem already known?

1) Create a new C++/CLI project in Visual Studio 2005 (eg. a console  
application).
2) Include the header <boost/thread/mutex.hpp>.

That's all. When you build and run the application you see the following  
Windows error message:

"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b). Click on OK  
to terminate the application."

If you build a .NET DLL and try to use it from another .NET application  
the error message changes to:

"is not a valid Win32 application. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700C1)"

In both cases Windows refuses to load the file. While you normally don't  
need Boost.Thread in a .NET application I ran into this problem because we  
have a thin .NET layer on top of a native C++ code DLL. As the DLL makes  
heavy use of various Boost libraries the header <boost/thread/mutex.hpp>  
ends up in the .NET DLL. Does anyone have an idea why including this  
header is a problem?

Boris