On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Anthony Williams <anthony_w.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Mat Marcus" <mat-lists@emarcus.org> writes:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Anthony Williams <anthony_w.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Mat Marcus" <mat-lists@emarcus.org> writes:
It seems that I am unable to build/use boost threads when compiling with gcc-4.2.0 on windows. I get errors:
libs\thread\src\win32\thread.cpp:147: error: 'heap_delete' is not a member of 'boost::detail'
and other (see below). Can someone advise me as to how I can get boost_thread to build under gcc-4.2.0/32-bit XP machine wth boost 1.35.0.
This surprises me: building using your bjam command line with gcc-4.2.1 on 32-bit Windows XP compiles file.
Have you got the latest w32api headers on your include path? I use w32api-3.10 from www.mingw.org, but earlier versions should work too.
Anthony
Thanks for the suggestion. I naively followed it, but things haven't improved yet.
Let me tell you a little bit more about my configuration. I use a version of bjam built with mscv, since my primary builds on this machine use the MS compiler. But I sometimes need to build with gcc-4.x. I usually run bjam from the cygwin shell, though sometimes I use cmd. I configured and compiled my own gcc-4.2.0 under cygwin. I had not installed the mingw win32 api headers in the past.
OK, stop right there. I naively assumed that you would be using the mingw port of gcc like I am. The cygwin port of gcc should use the pthread API by default. You do not need the w32api headers to build boost thread with cygwin and the pthread API.
I guess the build problems you're having are because the pthread headers are being chosen, but the build system is choosing the win32 source files.
I don't have cygwin on this machine, so could you try building with "threadapi=pthread" on the bjam command line?
Anthony
I'm pasting the result below. A couple of questions: 1) Why doesn't the build system choose the threadapi=pthread by default in my configuration? (The default seems to be win32) 2) Did 1.35.0 add the requirement over 1.34.1 that I need to download, build, and update my user-config.jam to point to a posix threads library before using boost threads? $ bjam -j2 debug gcc-4.2.0 --without-mpi --without-python threadapi=pthread libs/thread/build//boost_thread warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader. note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively. Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled. Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information (don't panic: this is a strictly optional feature). ************************************************************ Trying to build Boost.Thread with pthread support. If you need pthread you should specify the paths. You can specify them in site-config.jam, user-config.jam or in the environment. For example: PTW32_INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\ptw32\Pre-built2\include PTW32_LIB=C:\Program Files\ptw32\Pre-built2\lib ************************************************************ Skipping build of: libs/thread/build/boost_thread <build>no in common properties ...found 1 target...