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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] thread no defined - issue
From: Alexander Carôt (alexander_carot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-09-09 10:05:19

> 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.

Yes, this is correct - however, do we understand correctly ? I am talking of a compiled binary that works on any machine except for one user. Does this change the view on the problem or does it remain the same ?

> P.S. I will need an experimented Windows guy that help me as 
> co-maintainer for the Windows platform.
 
I prefer using OSX but since my main user base is on Windows I have to work with it as well. For that reason I have Win10 in a virtual machine, which works extremely well. 

I am not sure if I can fulfill this role but we can give it a try if you are fine with this.

Best

Alex

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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 06. September 2016 um 19:00 Uhr
> Von: "Vicente J. Botet Escriba" <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>
> An: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Betreff: Re: [Boost-users] thread no defined - issue
>
> 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.
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