Re: [Boost-users] [Thread][win32, msvc] Mutexes

Anthony Williams:

The windows.h include comes from boost.datetime. Hopefully it'll go soon.

The auto-link against libboost_thread is surprising to me, but I rarely use just boost mutexes in an app. I'll investigate.

Hopefully Jeff will figure out a way to selectively autolink libboost_datetime too, as it's not really required for the thread stuff.

If being header-only and not including are design goals for boost::mutex, the library should include tests for them. is easy: #include int Sleep; The header-only-ness could be more difficult; it's hard to test that a library is not being linked. It might also be possible to refactor Boost.Threads to not include any Date/Time headers on its own (but still interoperate with it).