Re: [Boost-users] [polygon] Compiling polygon under Windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [polygon] Compiling polygon under Windows
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-29 15:53:32

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:31:03AM -0800, Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
> I can fix this for the next release, however, for the second change it
> should actually use BOOST_POLYGON_MSVC and not _WIN32.  It was an
> oversight on my part that it was using the WIN32 instead of
> BOOST_POLYGON_MSVC macro.  It was a bug fix I added for older versions
> of the ICC compiler (and EDG frontend in general) which weren't doing
> SFINAE properly in a way that was mutually exclusive with the way MSVC
> 7.1, 8 and 9 doesn't do SFINAE properly.  Gcc worked either way so I
> singled out MSVC for the special behavior so that gcc, icc and all
> compilers that might use old versions of EDG frontend that I don't
> know about would work by default.  Apparently when I made the fix I
> used the wrong macro name.  I doubt you are using Polygon with
> BOOST_POLYGON_NO_DEPS defined, so it is the second instance of WIN32
> that was causing you trouble and it was my error in using WIN32
> instead of BOOST_POLYGON_MSVC that caused you the problem.  You should
> see a commit to trunk soon.

Surely Boost.Config contains Boost-global functionality for platform
detection?

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Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]