Building Toucan from scratch

Hi,

I'd like to build Toucan on a Windows XP machine. I tried almost all suggestions posted in topic https://portableapps.com/node/22783 but without success.

The offending source statement was:
#include <boost/threadpool.hpp>

because the threadpool library is not included in the latest Boost release. Actually, this library seems abandoned: the latest version (0.2.5) available on SourceForge is already four years old.

Since my machine had almost nothing except Python and Mercurial, I downloaded and installed the following packages:

Boost libraries 1.52.0
cxxTest 4.0.2
CMake 2.8.1.10
gtest 1.6.0
LUA 5.1.4.46
MinGW compiler suite
SWIG 2.0.8
wxWidgets 2.9.4

Toucan sources were downloaded from the Mercurial repository (changeset 1839, dated 2012-09-14).

I also tried two older versions that do not require the threadpool feature (Mercurial changesets 1825 and 1685). Both failed, with different errors.

So the big question here is: is it worth insisting with the [abandoned, unsafe] threadpool package, or would it be better to go back to some earlier release?

Thanks in advance,

TheRG

Update 2012-11-25
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I managed to build Toucan with the following changes to repository changeset 1839:

1) commented out all the threadpool statements
2) added the following include statement in several files

#include <wx/frame.h>

3) fixed another five minor issues (like missing #define)

Running issues:

4) obviously, threads do nothing because of commented code
5) executable too big: 140 MB (debug), 84 MB (minimum)
6) added two missing bitmaps (undo.png and redo.png)

Any suggestions to solve the thread problem, with or without using the thread pool?