[Boost-users] 1.35.0 && serialization && spirit && thread safety

From: Tim St. Clair (timothysc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 18:27:04

I've seen info in various email-threads regarding thread safety when using
xml archives.
We had come across some assert conditions in multithreaded code, only to
trace down that (BOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE) was not defined during boost
compilation.

to fix, I modified the Jamfile.v2 for serialization:

lib boost_serialization
     : $(SOURCES).cpp
        /boost/thread//boost_thread                             # needed to
add this as a dep b/c we need to link threads when we define
BOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE
    : <define>BOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE            # needed to add this as a
define
      <toolset>msvc:<cxxflags>/Gy
      <link>shared:<define>BOOST_SERIALIZATION_DYN_LINK=1
      <conditional>@include-spirit
    ;

I've also added BOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE as a <define> in our code as well.

I hope this helps others...

Cheers,
Tim