Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Threads for Fedora/Wine

From: Michael Ost (most_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-10 15:59:26

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:27:39 +0100, Anthony Williams
<anthony.ajw_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> First off, put threadapi=win32 on your bjam command line. This will
> ensure the libraries are named differently to the pthread ones, and
> won't define the macros that force pthreads.
> 
> Next, ensure that _WIN32 is defined (e.g. add -D_WIN32 to <compileflags>
> for
> your compiler in user-config.jam)
> 
> I wouldn't recommend trying to use some pthreads and some win32 builds
> of boost libs in the same app: if they use any boost.thread facilities
> then the definitions are different between the two APIs
> (e.g. structure of boost::mutex).

Good point. And building boost with winegcc adds a whole secondary
translation layer which bypasses any optimizations the boost developers
have done.

>From queries to the wine-devel list, the problem is that Wine needs to know
about threads being created. So I might be able to work with that.

Thanks for the help... mo