Boost and /clr code

[anonymous]

When using boost in an application which uses threads it gives the fault message:

1>c:\program files (x86)\boost\boost_1_47\boost\thread\win32\thread_primitives.hpp(314): error C2472: 'boost::detail::win32::interlocked_bit_test_and_set' cannot be generated in managed code: 'Found an intrinsic not supported in managed code'; compile with /clr to generate a mixed image

    1>c:\program files (x86)\boost\boost_1_47\boost\thread\win32\basic_timed_mutex.hpp(160): error C2472: 'boost::detail::basic_timed_mutex::unlock' cannot be generated in managed code: 'Found an intrinsic not supported in managed code'; compile with /clr to generate a mixed image

Found on the internet: Boost.thread uses some thread local storage calls that don't work if you directly link them with CLR code. In VS2008 the link would succeed but you'd crash on startup -- I suspect this is a symptom of the same problem, VS2010-style.

On stackoverflow I found the following workaround: It is necessary to build boost.thread as a DLL instead of linking it statically, and maybe it'll link for you that way...

[viboes]

What do you expect from this ticket?

[anonymous]

Maybe there is a way to avoid this, so when compiling a program in managed code, there isn't any intrinsic which is not supported in managed code.

[viboes]

Could you try to compile Boost.Thread with /clr as suggested

"compile with /clr to generate a mixed image"?

[anonymous]

I haven)t tried it, because I did not use the library which gives this problem, because my program needs to work. I have decided to use something else, but I will try when my program is done, to compile it as suggested.