`GC_allow_register_threads` missing from `devel/boehm-gc`?

[euantorano]

I'm working on some CI for Nim on FreeBSD, but we're currently getting an error relating to the devel/boehm-gc package for some of the unit tests.

Nim tries to make use of the GC_allow_register_threads function, but we get an error message:

could not import: GC_allow_register_threads

I've tried using readelf -Ws /usr/local/lib/libgc.so.1 | grep GC_allow_register_threads to see if the function is exported, and it does seem to be missing. is there something I'm missing here?

 

[SirDice]

Not a programmer so I may be talking out of my backside but shouldn't you use devel/boehm-gc-threaded instead?

 

[euantorano]

Not a programmer so I may be talking out of my backside but shouldn't you use devel/boehm-gc-threaded instead?

That may well be the problem! I hadn't realised there was a separate threaded version. I'll give that a go and see what happens, thanks.