Re: [Boost-users] Boost thread conflicts with MFC

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost thread conflicts with MFC
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-08 18:04:17

Thread documentation contains some dire warnings about using the package
with MFC. Will this patch permit these warnings to be ignored and use
the thread package with MFC?

Robert Ramey

Anthony Williams wrote:
> Igor MI <kostadinovigor_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> I updated from 1.35 to 1.38 when the conflicts started. My MFC
>> application wouldn't start, it would throw an exception. I pinned
>> down the problem to the hook that boost thread library is using
>> which is located in tss_pe.cpp:
>>
>> extern "C"
>> {
>>     extern BOOL (WINAPI * const _pRawDllMain)(HANDLE, DWORD,
>> LPVOID)=&dll_callback;
>> }
>>
>> What I did is comment this declaration and rebuild the library and
>> now my application seems to be running normally. My question is can
>> boost thread library run properly without this hook? If not, what
>> other solution do you suggest.
>
> This hook is necessary when using static-linked boost.thread in a DLL,
> in order to ensure that the thread-specific data allocated for each
> thread is cleaned up.
>
> I have been sent a patch to handle this case, and will try and
> integrate it into boost.thread sometime soon.
>
> Anthony