Re: bjam and windows command line problem.

"silvermangbs" writes:

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Maybe I answered my own question. I set CXXFLAGS to -mno-cygwin and ran configure. The user.hpp file it generated allowed me to build the threads for the first time.

Running configure should generally not be needed, especially for well-supported platforms like Windows. I certainly built the

If I do not run configure first, I get the following link errors when I try to build threads gcc-Link- action ../../../libs/thread/build/bin/libboost_thread.dll/gcc- nocygwin/debug/runtime-link-dynamic/threading- multi/libboost_thread.dll /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(vterminate.o) (.text$_ZN9__gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv+0x71): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(vterminate.o) (.text$_ZN9__gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv+0xb6): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(cxa_demangle.o) (.text$demangle_v3_with_details+0x87): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(cxa_demangle.o) (.text$demangle_v3_with_details+0xaf): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(ios.o) (.text$_ZNSt8ios_base4Init13_S_ios_createEb+0x3e): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(ios.o) (.text$_ZNSt8ios_base4Init13_S_ios_createEb+0x67): more undefined references to `_impure_ptr' follow /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(locale.o) (.text$_ZNSt5ctypeIcE13classic_tableEv+0x4): undefined reference to `_imp___ctype_' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(pure.o)(.text$__cxa_pure_virtual+0xe): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(c++locale.o) (.text$_ZSt14__convert_to_vIlEvPKcRT_RSt12_Ios_IostateRKPii+0x28): undefined reference to `__errno' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(c++locale.o) (.text$_ZSt14__convert_to_vIlEvPKcRT_RSt12_Ios_IostateRKPii+0x5c): undefined reference to `__errno' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(c++locale.o) (.text$_ZSt14__convert_to_vImEvPKcRT_RSt12_Ios_IostateRKPii+0x28): undefined reference to `__errno' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(c++locale.o) (.text$_ZSt14__convert_to_vImEvPKcRT_RSt12_Ios_IostateRKPii+0x5c): undefined reference to `__errno' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(c++locale.o) (.text$_ZSt14__convert_to_vIxEvPKcRT_RSt12_Ios_IostateRKPii+0x25): undefined reference to `__errno' /usr//lib/libstdc++.a(c++locale.o) (.text$_ZSt14__convert_to_vIxEvPKcRT_RSt12_Ios_IostateRKPii+0x5f): more undefined references to `__errno' follow --- In Boost-Users@yahoogroups.com, David Abrahams wrote: threads

library using gcc-nocygwin without doing any config steps. I'm very surprised that you needed to do it.

-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com