Tonko Juricic wrote:

First excuse me if this topic is not appropriate for boost developers list. This is my first post so I decided on asking a question rather than sending an empty message with test as a subject.

I just built boost 1.31.0 libraries on Windows XP, using Visual Studio .NET 2003, compiler version 13.10.3077.

To build both static libs and dlls I used this bjam command parameter -sBUILD=debug release <runtime-link>static/dynamic.

Build worked just fine for all libs (for ex. I got both libboost_signals.lib and boost_signals.dll targets for signals) except for the thread library that created only boost_thread.dll target.

What am I missing? Is there a reason that static threads library was not built and is there any way I can help?

The 1.31.0 version of Boost.Threads doesn't support building as a static library; this is because a dynamic library was necessary to prevent memory leaks in the thread_specific_ptr on Win32. The upcoming 1.32.0 has some support for building as a static library (i.e. you can build it that way, but you must call functions at appropriate times-- not an easy thing to do--to prevent the memory leaks if you use thread_specific_ptr). Hopefully the next release after 1.32.0 will do cleanup for you automatically. Mike