[C++-sig] boost.python: tss_cleanup_implemented link error windows 64 bit

[Niall Douglas]

Are you saying that you're statically linking BPL into your PYD? If 
you are, you shouldn't do that. BPL should live in its own DLL, 
*especially* when not on Linux/FreeBSD.

Niall


On 21 Feb 2012 at 9:35, Jonathan WRIGHT wrote:

> Many thanks for the quick response. I think I am OK for the runtime as I 
> am using the msvc compiler from the platform SDK. Depends.exe only picks 
> up MSVCP90.dll and MSVCR90.dll and KERNEL32.dll.
> 
> What is unusual in this package is that boost.python is being linked 
> into the pyd file by adding all the .cpp files in distutils. It seems 
> the link error can be suppressed by defining either:
> 
> BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL or BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_LIB
> 
> ...but which one is better, or does it make no difference?
> We have already defined BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB to disable auto-linking.
> 
> I guess I am really wondering what on earth is behind the tss issue and 
> whether there is a simple test case to see if we are doing it right. 
> Would something like a little function which creates and destroys 
> threads show a memory leak if the tss is not right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> On 20/02/2012 23:42, Niall Douglas wrote:
> > Generally when I see that missing symbol it means mismatched C
> > runtimes. Usually in my experience it's safe to declare that symbol
> > as weak to make the link error go away while handling if it's present
> > correctly.
> >
> > Niall
> >
> > On 20 Feb 2012 at 20:02, Jon Wright wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have been trying to build pyopencl and pycuda on windows using the
> >> subset of boost in those packages on windows 64 bit. The problem is a
> >> link error due to missing tss_cleanup_implemented. The codes seem to run
> >> without problem if the link error is suppressed:
> >>
> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.cuda/2516
> >>
> >> Does anyone know what the tss issue is about and whether it is likely to
> >> cause a problem? Any advice would be welcome.
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Jon
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