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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For now just comment out context.  We won't need it until building GAL
P&S.  Does mingw come with an assembler.  Does it suppprt inline asm?

Ther are only a coulple of small files to assemble.

Enabling context was a trial balloon.  Seems to have accomplished its goal.
On Oct 14, 2013 4:27 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I know it's only our own fault for being on Windows but the "Rev 4382: *)
> Switch over to FP_LIB_TABLE::Footprint*() functions" commit introduces the
> need for the Microsoft assembler, MASM to be installed to be able to build
> Boost.
>
> It's the context library that brings in this dependency.
>
> The only reason it's awkward is because there's no way I can redistribute
> or package it, and the only way of getting it is through Microsoft's
> website as a setup.exe package via confirmation links. i.e. we can't just
> use a fixed URL to download it anyway as far as I'm aware.
>
> We could try to use the patch here:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7262 but it's against an older
> version and will bit rot. The boost guys don't seem to be at all bothered
> and don't see it as an issue.
>
> I don't know if there are other ways around the problem?
>
> I'm just working on the openssl cmake patch so we can build it ourselves
> using cmake, thus cutting out the perl dependency.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
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