Re[2]: [lmi] boost::filesystem oddity

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:26:25 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> Yes. Function pointers just can't be passed blithely across dll boundaries.
GC> 
GC> For name-check defined functions in the boost library, they should have
GC> used either an internal function returning a function pointer, or an enum.

 Exactly.

GC> It turns out that this has been reported already, most recently last month:
GC>   http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2005/12/15592.php

 And there is also a patch fixing the problem in the second reply to this
message which works along the lines I thought.

GC> >  If we still have a real problem with this, I could spend more time on it,
GC> > of course.
GC> 
GC> Thanks, but I've already worked around it (ChangeLog for 20060115T1243Z)
GC> by setting the default policy in the dll.

 Yes, this seems the best thing to do while waiting for the new version.

 Thanks,
VZ