Errors when building Boost with MinGW

[Ben Key <BKey76@…>]

When building the latest Boost SVN with MinGW I am getting the following errors.

./boost/detail/winapi/thread_pool.hpp: At global scope: ./boost/detail/winapi/thread_pool.hpp:30:9: error: '::RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx' has not been declared

using ::RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx;

./boost/sync/detail/waitable_timer.hpp: In member function 'void boost::sync::detail::windows::waitable_timer_state::init()': ./boost/sync/detail/waitable_timer.hpp:169:26: error: 'OpenSemaphoreA' is not a member of 'boost::detail::winapi'

tls_key_holder = boost::detail::winapi::OpenSemaphoreA

The solution to the OpenSemaphoreA error is to simply add the following line to boost\detail\winapi\synchronization.hpp.

using ::OpenSemaphoreA;

I added it immediately after the "using ::CreateSemaphoreA;" line.

The solution to the RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx error is a little more complicated. There is a bug in the mingw-w64 version of winbase.h. It does not define RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx. The solution is to replace the "using ::RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx;" line with the following,

#if defined(MINGW32) /* Work around a bug in the mingw-w64 version of winbase.h which does not define RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx */ WINBASEAPI HANDLE WINAPI RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx(HANDLE,WAITORTIMERCALLBACK,PVOID,ULONG,ULONG); #else using ::RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx; #endif

The following patch resolves these issues and an issue with the bootstrap process I reported earlier,

Index: boost/detail/winapi/synchronization.hpp =================================================================== --- boost/detail/winapi/synchronization.hpp (revision 86431) +++ boost/detail/winapi/synchronization.hpp (working copy) @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@

using ::CreateEventA; using ::OpenEventA; using ::CreateSemaphoreA;

+ using ::OpenSemaphoreA;

# endif

using ::ReleaseMutex; using ::ReleaseSemaphore;

Index: boost/detail/winapi/thread_pool.hpp =================================================================== --- boost/detail/winapi/thread_pool.hpp (revision 86431) +++ boost/detail/winapi/thread_pool.hpp (working copy) @@ -27,7 +27,12 @@

typedef ::WAITORTIMERCALLBACK WAITORTIMERCALLBACK_;

using ::RegisterWaitForSingleObject;

+#if defined(MINGW32) +/* Work around a bug in the mingw-w64 version of winbase.h which does not define RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx */ +WINBASEAPI HANDLE WINAPI RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx(HANDLE,WAITORTIMERCALLBACK,PVOID,ULONG,ULONG); +#else

using ::RegisterWaitForSingleObjectEx;

+#endif

using ::UnregisterWait; using ::UnregisterWaitEx;

Index: tools/build/v2/engine/builtins.c =================================================================== --- tools/build/v2/engine/builtins.c (revision 86431) +++ tools/build/v2/engine/builtins.c (working copy) @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@

#ifdef OS_NT #include <windows.h>

+#include <winioctl.h>

#endif

#if defined(USE_EXECUNIX)

[Andrey Semashev]

Please, try the latest version from git and create a new ticket if the problem still exists.