I want to communicate between different platforms using boost interprocess. I am using vc12 and boost 1.58 on windows 7. My code below is a very simple example, that should work. But it doesn't for communications between different platforms... If I create it in x64 and open in win32, the process stuck at a lock at function try_based_lock in boost/int/sync/detail/common_algorithms.hpp In the other way around: win32 create, x64 open: the process crashes at name_length in segment_manager_helper.hpp while trying to find the name in index (priv_generic_find in segment_manager). #include <iostream> #include <boost/interprocess/managed_shared_memory.hpp> int main() { namespace bip = boost::interprocess; // open in WIN32, create in x64 #ifdef _WIN32 bip::managed_shared_memory msm(bip::open_only, "TestIPC"); #elsif X64 bip::shared_memory_object::remove("TestIPC"); bip::managed_shared_memory msm(bip::create_only, "TestIPC", 4096); msm.construct<uint32_t>("Data")[1](10); #endif // Get Data and print it auto data = msm.find<uint32_t>("Data"); if (data.second == 1) { std::cout << *data.first << std::endl; } std::cin.ignore(); return 0; } Does anybody have experience in this? Thank you in advance!