Question

I tried to use Boost thread local storage with Windows threads. I built the project without any problems.

However my question here is, is it okay to use Boost TLS with Windows threads?

Answer 1

Edit

Yes Boost is integrally supported on windows with all major compilers:

Supported compilers and platforms

The library should build and work with a reasonably compliant compiler. The library was > successfully built and tested on the following platforms:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista. MSVC 8.0, 9.0. MSVC 7.1 may work too, but it was not tested.
• Windows Vista. Intel C++ Compiler 10.1.022, 11.1.048.
• Linux. GCC 4.2 and newer. GCC 4.1 may work too, but it was not tested.
• Linux. Intel C++ 11.1.056.

The following compilers/platforms are not supported and will likely fail to compile the library:

• MSVC 7.0 and older.
• Borland C++ 5.5.1 (free version). Newer versions might or might not work.
• GCC 4.0 and older.
• Windows 9x, ME, NT4 and older are not supported.

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_{I suppose you mean what "libraries do I need"?}

You need to link to the import library for boost threads, usually a file like

C:\Program Files\boost\boot_1_47_0\lib\libboost_pthread....lib

This file can be added to the additional libraries to link box in the c++ linker settings. Don’t forget to add it for debug and release builds.

PS. don’t have Windows handy right now, so I can’t do the screen shots.