Re: [Boost-users] Problems compiling those libraries that are not header only on 64 bit Windows 7

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problems compiling those libraries that are not header only on 64 bit Windows 7
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-29 17:40:58

On 1:59 PM, Ted Byers wrote:
> Thanks. Is there a flag I can pass to bjam to produce output in a similar
> form, or do I have to resort to a manual parsing of that output it produces
> when executed in status?

I think if you run bjam with no arguments, it'll give you a reasonably
user-friendly (non-XML) on the console.
>> Also, see https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4839 for a batch of
> patches to get boost::thread to build. (A lot of other things are built on
> it.) I haven't had time to push to get these patches incorporated.
>
> Is this bug a regression in 1.46.0  from 1.45.0? 
>
> I ask because when I check the stage and install directories, I find
> boost_thread has been built (both 32 bit and 64 bit in the case of MSVC).  I
> did not see any errors related to it in the test output  as it scrolled by,
> though most of the output  was overwritten in the commandline window buffer
> by newer output.  And in your table on the other page, it seems to work on
> both 32 bit and 64 bit MSVC-10 (I didn't find results for gcc4.3.4 in
> cygwin).

If you're not having problems with thread, then my suggestion(s) don't
apply.