--- In Boost-Users@yahoogroups.com, David Abrahams wrote:

Try the boost CVS state; it now has shell-insensitive testing code.

You may need a bjam update:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586

(at the bottom)

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Dave Abrahams

Boost Consulting

www.boost-consulting.com

I got the newest bjam.exe and had the same results. When I go into the $boost/lib/thread/test/bin/ and run the tests, test_mutex has errors, the others don't. So I assume my linking to the pthreads is not working properly. is there info on how to tell boost which threads to use? Is that located in the threads.jam file? Or do I just set the PTW32 ENV variable to point to the installation? thanks Sam

sam said:

Ok,

I'm a big nob, I have been setting the PTW32 to point to the pthreads installation I downloaded. So I have the boost.threads built with 'bjam -sTOOLS=gcc -sPTW32="c:\pthreads\ VC...lib" ' and the tests still fail.

To use the standard threads I know you have to have threadmon.dll created, correct? How to do that?

With Boost 1.29.0, yes (the current CVS state is quite different, and always creates shared libraries instead of static libraries). The Jamfiles will create this DLL for you (provided you don't use PTW32!). -- William E. Kempf