RE: [Boost-users] Re: statically linking to Boost.Threads with msvc7
In Boost release 1.31, the Boost.Threads library doesn't support static linking. This limitation will be removed in the next release (coming soon) for:
a) anyone using the pthreads implementation of Boost.Threads b) anyone using Visual C++ on Win32
Hopefully it will be removed for other Win32 compilers in the future.
How was the TSS problem solved for win32-threads? What's the ETA for the next version? Thanks, aaron
Simmons, Aaron wrote:
In Boost release 1.31, the Boost.Threads library doesn't support
static
linking. This limitation will be removed in the next release (coming soon) for:
a) anyone using the pthreads implementation of Boost.Threads b) anyone using Visual C++ on Win32
Hopefully it will be removed for other Win32 compilers in the future.
How was the TSS problem solved for win32-threads?
Sorry for the late reply. Aaron LaFramboise discovered that the Win32 Portable Executable file format provides for a tls callback function that works much like DllMain in dlls. He posted an implementation that uses this feature in a statically linked library for VC++ 7.1 on the boost.devel list. Roland helped work through some problems with VC++ 6. Others contributed ideas and refinements, and I added it all, with some refinements of my own, into Boost.Threads.
What's the ETA for the next version?
That I can't tell you. Probably sometime from a couple of weeks to a couple of months from now. Anyway, it's in the works. Mike
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