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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.56.0 has been released
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-11 09:37:13

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:35:13PM +0200, Lars Viklund wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:47:10AM +1200, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> > On 9/08/2014 02:04, Lars Viklund wrote:
> > >On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:39:18PM +0200, Christoffer Green wrote:
> > >>..\..\..\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'
> > [...]
> > >In this case, you in your project appear to not be linking in the
> > >library defining InterlockedCompareExchange, which IIRC is located in
> > >Kernel32.lib.
> > 
> > That should be a compiler intrinsic, though, not a library call.  You may
> > need the /Oi compiler flag and/or some #defines to accomplish this.
> 
> This isn't VC++, this is some form of mingw-like as gcc or clang.

I just saw the commit range mentioned by Niall in his post. It appears
that Boost.Thread explicitly invokes some sort of pragma and uses
internal names for the intrinsic/function instead of letting headers and
compilers do their thing. How nice and interoperable...

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Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]