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

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 -- http://www.carot.de Email : Alexander@Carot.de Tel.: +49 (0)177 5719797

Gesendet: Dienstag, 06. September 2016 um 19:00 Uhr Von: "Vicente J. Botet Escriba" An: boost-users@lists.boost.org Betreff: Re: [Boost-users] thread no defined - issue

Le 06/09/2016 à 01:40, Gavin Lambert a écrit :

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On 6/09/2016 07:14, Alexander Carôt wrote:

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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

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