Adapt Boost Thread / Process for non supported platform

Question

Background

this documentation says that it is possible to adapt the library to new (unsupported) operation system. Because the OS (a real time OS) I would like to support is close to Win32, I would expect little code changes. I have no experience with Boost Thread and Boost Interprocess .

Questions

• Would you recommend to use Boost's Thread and Boost's Interprocess, if the plattform is not supported?
• What are the benefits and drawbacks?
• Which alternatives would you consider?

Answer 1

All this depend on your needs. Using a portable library has the obvious advantages. Stabilizing a new platform could take some time.

I would suggest you to create tickets for each one of the features that doesn't work for the specific platform and work closely with the Boost authors.