Re: [Boost-users] thread no defined - issue

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] thread no defined - issue
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-09-06 13:00:23

Le 06/09/2016 à 01:40, Gavin Lambert a écrit :
> On 6/09/2016 07:14, Alexander Carôt wrote:
>> one single (windows) user in my project community
>> (http://www.soundjack.eu) has the following problem:
>>
>> #ifndef BOOST_THREAD_DEFINES_THREAD_ATTRIBUTES_NATIVE_HANDLE
>>         cout << "THREAD IS NOT DEFINED" << endl;
>> #endif
>>
>> This statement is true but only for him – on any other machine (Win,
>> Linux and OSX) is works fine.
>
> I haven't tried checking older versions of Boost to see if it's 
> different, but AFAICT in 1.60 this symbol is only defined when using 
> pthreads, which would not normally be the case on Windows unless 
> you're using Cygwin (or possibly mingw).
>
> They could try defining BOOST_THREAD_POSIX to force use of pthreads if 
> you require this for some reason, but this would have to be defined 
> when compiling Boost itself, any libraries that use Boost, and for the 
> application.
>
> If at all possible you should make your code work with both pthreads 
> and Win32 threads.
>
AFAIK Boost.Thread don't use the pthread API on Windows. This will imply 
a lot of changes that I can not test now as I don't have a Windows machine.

If some one can spend some time trying to create a port to 
Win/cygwin/... I'll be open to take in account the patch.

Best,
Vicente

P.S. I will need an experimented Windows guy that help me as 
co-maintainer for the Windows platform.