[Boost-users] Problems compiling on Windows......

Subject: [Boost-users] Problems compiling on Windows......
From: Marcus MacWilliam (marcus.macwilliam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-23 09:36:15

Hello,

I am a boost newbie, and this is my first post :-)

I am inserting boost into my application using pre-compiled headers on 
Windows.
The pre-compiled header looks like this:

#ifndef PRECOMPILEDHEADERS_WINRT_SRC_MAIN_INCLUDE_PRE_COMPILED_H_
#define PRECOMPILEDHEADERS_WINRT_SRC_MAIN_INCLUDE_PRE_COMPILED_H_

// Standard integer types
#include <stdint.h>

// Includes for d2d libraries
#include <wrl.h>
#include <d3d11_1.h>
#include <d2d1_1.h>
#include <d2d1effects.h>
#include <d2d1_1helper.h>
#include <dwrite_1.h>
#include <wincodec.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <agile.h>

// Includes for STL types
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <memory>
#include <exception>
#include <collection.h>

// Includes for Windows error
#include <winerror.h>

// Includes for Boost libraries
#include "boost/exception/all.hpp"
#include "boost/optional.hpp"
#include "boost/variant.hpp"
#include "boost/exception_ptr.hpp"
#include "boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time_types.hpp"
#include "boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp"
#include "boost/archive/text_iarchive.hpp"
#include "boost/serialization/access.hpp"
#include "boost/serialization/vector.hpp"
#include "boost/serialization/string.hpp"

// Includes for devices communications
#include "boost/interprocess/sync/named_mutex.hpp"
#include "boost/interprocess/sync/scoped_lock.hpp"
#include "boost/archive/binary_oarchive.hpp"
#include "boost/archive/binary_iarchive.hpp"

#endif // PRECOMPILEDHEADERS_WINRT_SRC_MAIN_INCLUDE_PRE_COMPILED_H_

However when I attempt to compile this through maven, using the 
maven-nar-plugin, on a Windows 8 machine, I get the following error:

[INFO] --- maven-nar-plugin:2.25:nar-compile (default-nar-compile) @ 
precompiledheaders-winrt ---
[INFO] Compiling 1 native files
[INFO] Looking for WinRT dependencies
[ERROR] 
C:\Users\marcusma\Source\1edit-prism\precompiledheaders\winrt\external-sources\boost/interprocess/detail/os_file
_functions.hpp(94) : error C2039: 'getenv' : is not a member of 'std'
[ERROR] 
C:\Users\marcusma\Source\1edit-prism\precompiledheaders\winrt\external-sources\boost/interprocess/detail/os_file
_functions.hpp(94) : error C3861: 'getenv': identifier not found

This appears to be correct, getenv according to the MSDN documentation 
is not available when compiling code for WinRT, using Visual Studio 12, 
on a Windows 8 machine.

I understood that boost was supposed to be multi-platform, so why is 
std::getenv being used, which is not available for Windows?

Can someone suggest what I need to do to get my pre-compiled headers to 
compile.

Cheers,

-- 
Marcus A.T MacWilliam, Senior Software Engineer. 1Spatial Ltd.
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