Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.56.0 has been released

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.56.0 has been released
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-10 19:00:23

On 8 Aug 2014 at 12:39, Christoffer Green wrote:

> I tried upgrading from 1.55 to 1.56 and got a linking error.
> 
> I am using mingw32-gcc-4.7.2 on windows 7. I compiled boost with "b2
> toolset=gcc stage release -j8 --build-type=complete link=static
> threading=multi variant=release"
> 
> ..\..\..\lib/libPrimeGameEngineRelease.a(GameEngine.o):GameEngine.cpp:(.text$_ZN5boost6detail5win3223GetTickCount64emulationEv+0x27):
> undefined reference to `_InterlockedCompareExchange'
> ..\..\..\lib/libPrimeGameEngineRelease.a(GameEngine.o):GameEngine.cpp:(.text$_ZN5boost6detail5win3223GetTickCount64emulationEv+0x87):
> undefined reference to `_InterlockedCompareExchange'

Boost.Thread in 1.56 is known to be broken on Mingw. It was 
discovered late in the testing process. We did not consider it a 
showstopper as Mingw-w64 is not broken. Boost.Thread trunk is already 
fixed for Mingw, you can find the fix at 
https://github.com/boostorg/thread/commit/26042ca26a9783c9055a40ada6b8
bb26d3dd65b6#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

Niall

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