Re: [Boost-users] VS2010 and /clr: fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] VS2010 and /clr: fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler
From: OvermindDL1 (overminddl1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-08 18:23:17

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Soren Dreijer
<admin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Probably because that causes some assembly to be emitted because of
>> the efficiency requirements of the mutex, and the CLR does not support
>> direct assembly.  Either get out of the CLR, or do not use anything
>> that uses low assembly constructs (CLR has its own thread and mutex
>> classes anyway).
>
> Well, so I can't "just get out of the CLR". As I mentioned earlier, this is
> a managed C++ project that exposes native functionality from other libraries
> to .NET. That is, I *have* to include the native headers, which in turn
> include boost.
>
> This worked fine in VS2008, too, so it sounds more like a regression in the
> compiler I think.
>
> Also, when compiling for x86, I see the following warning but everything
> still compiles (the warning is to be expected, as you say yourself):
>
> 4>boost_1_43_0_sdk\include\boost\thread\win32\basic_timed_mutex.hpp(160):
> warning C4793: 'boost::detail::basic_timed_mutex::unlock' : function
> compiled as native :
> 4>      Found an intrinsic not supported in managed code

Best bet might be to just compile it as a native dll, and P/Invoke
what you need in.  You lose multi-platformdness if you care about
going to Mono, but you are using the CLR anyway so you probably do not
care about multi-platform...