I'm trying to make an old, legacy project compile on my computer. I'm stuck on #error "Threading support unavailable: it has been explicitly disabled with BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS and stumbled on a patch for it. See this question. I downloaded the patch file.
What am I supposed to do with it? How can I install it? Putting it inside the specified folder (...\boost_1_48_0\boost\config\stdlib) didn't help.
I'm using boost 1.48; CodeBlocks IDE and cygwin on Windows 10.
The patch looks like this:
Index: boost/config/stdlib/libstdcpp3.hpp
===================================================================
--- boost/config/stdlib/libstdcpp3.hpp (revision 75635)
+++ boost/config/stdlib/libstdcpp3.hpp (working copy)
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
#ifdef __GLIBCXX__ // gcc 3.4 and greater:
# if defined(_GLIBCXX_HAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT) \
- || defined(_GLIBCXX__PTHREADS)
+ || defined(_GLIBCXX__PTHREADS) \
+ || defined(_GLIBCXX_HAS_GTHREADS)
//
// If the std lib has thread support turned on, then turn it on in Boost
// as well. We do this because some gcc-3.4 std lib headers define _REENTANT
Assuming you put the patch under boost_1_48_0/threads.patch, you should be able to apply it with
cd ...\boost_1_48_0
patch -p0 < threads.patch
You can remove the patch file afterwards.