Problem building appleseed on windows

[Srinath Ravichandran]

Hi

I've tried to build the latest source of appleseed on windows 10. I'm getting this weird error with regards to boost

1>appleseed\src\appleseed\foundation/platform/thread.h(301): error C2280: 'boost::detail::spinlock &boost::detail::spinlock::operator =(const boost::detail::spinlock &)': attempting to reference a deleted function (compiling source file appleseed\src\appleseed\foundation\meta\tests\test_job.cpp)

1>  libraries\boost_1_64_0\boost/smart_ptr/detail/spinlock_std_atomic.hpp(76): note: compiler has generated 'boost::detail::spinlock::operator =' here (compiling source file appleseed\src\appleseed\foundation\meta\tests\test_job.cpp)

My configuration:

OS: windows 10 - x64

Boost: 1.63.0

VS: 2015 - x64

Is the above boost version not supported? Should I go for a lower version to compile appleseed?

[Srinath Ravichandran]

There's been a typo in my post.

I'm using Boost 1.64.0 and not 1.63.0

[Regis Vaquette]

Hi Srinath,

You have to use the Visual Studio 2017 build tools (v141) because the Visual Studio 15 tools have a bug that causes this error.

Regis

[Regis Vaquette]

Sorry, it's not the right reason.

To correct the problem you must define BOOST_NO_CXX11_HDR_ATOMIC in order to include spinlock_w32.hpp rather than boost/smart_ptr/detail/spinlock_sync.hpp (cf spinlock.hpp).

Regis

[François Beaune]

Hey Regis,

Thanks for the details!

As far as I know, the Windows build instructions on the website (https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/wiki/Building-appleseed-on-Windows) are fully accurate and work if closely followed.

In particular I never had to define BOOST_NO_CXX11_HDR_ATOMIC but maybe that's because I only ever tried Boost 1.55 and Boost 1.61?

Franz

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