Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #4921: BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL and BOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB are crucial and need to be documented

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:44:35 GMT

...and they should have a line in thread's doc's table of contents.

anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:55:24 GMT

In general boost is terrible for this sort of thing. The only way to learn about this kind of stuff is to get some some sort of cryptic error message when you try to compile your app, and then search for the compiler error in google.

version, milestone changed; cc set

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:58:00 GMT

cc jim@… added
version Boost 1.45.0 → Boost Development Trunk
milestone Boost 1.46.0 → Boost 1.47.0

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:02:43 GMT

And (for the sake of the search engines) needing it and not supplying it gives you errors like such:

undefined reference to `_imp___ZN5boost11this_thread18interruptible_waitEPvNS_6detail7timeoutE'
In function `~thread_group':
undefined reference to `_imp___ZN5boost6threadD1Ev'
undefined reference to `_imp___ZN5boost6thread4joinEv'
In function `thread<void (*)()>':
undefined reference to `_imp___ZN5boost6thread12start_threadEv'
In function `~auto_ptr':
undefined reference to `_imp___ZN5boost6threadD1Ev'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

cc, owner, status, milestone changed

viboes — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:17:38 GMT

cc viboes added
owner changed from Anthony Williams to viboes
status new → assigned
milestone Boost 1.47.0 → To Be Determined

I see that in addition Boost.Thread doesn't follows completely Automatic library selection.

It would be great to adopt the already documented way to build and use a library, document it and make the necessary adaptations on the code and bjam files.

What about this text.

Using and building the library

Boost.Thread is configured following the conventions used to build libraries with separate source code. Boost.Thread will import/export the code only if the user has specifically asked for it, by defining either BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK if they want all boost libraries to be dynamically linked, or BOOST_THREAD_DYN_LINK if they want just this one to be dynamically liked.

The source code compiled when building the library defines a macros BOOST_THREAD_SOURCE that is used to import or export it. The user must not define this macro in any case.

milestone changed

viboes — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:17:00 GMT

milestone To Be Determined → Boost 1.49.0

Committed in trunk revision #75905.

viboes — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:35:54 GMT

Committed in trunk at revision [76543].

status, milestone changed; resolution set

viboes — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:32:42 GMT

status assigned → closed
resolution → fixed
milestone Boost 1.49.0 → Boost 1.50.0

Committed in release branch at [78543]