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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info.  I confirmed JP's testing and it looks like this
may only be a 64-bit mingw build issue.

On 10/19/2015 7:56 PM, Joseph Chen wrote:
> For Linux, Boost 1.59 seems working fine, at least for me for over a
> month now.  I've been using Boost 1.59 compiled from the source on my
> Ubuntu 15.04, and Kicad's been building and running OK for a while with me.
> 
> --JC
> 
> On 10/19/2015 08:45 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Boost 1.59 was just release for MSYS2/MinGW.  KiCad will fail to build
>> the github plugin.  It appears there were some changes in Boost 1.59
>> that break avhttp.  I confirmed this by building their samples which
>> also fail with the same error.  I have filed a bug report with the
>> avhttp project but I don't know how much help we are going to get.
>> There hasn't been much activity in the avhttp project recently.  I'm not
>> sure what the status is for linux and osx builds but I'm guessing that
>> since it's a winapi issue that they will not be affected.  If you are
>> using msys2/mingw, do not upgrade to boost 1.59.  If like me you already
>> have, you should downgrade to 1.57 and use pacman pin boost to prevent
>> it from upgrading until this issue is resolved.  Package builders will
>> need to be fixed accordingly.  If anyone has time to look at this, any
>> help would be appreciated.
>>
>> FYI, boost 1.59 finally has include gas files for compiling the context
>> library on windows using the gnu assembler so the large patches we
>> provide at some point will not be required.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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