I'm on a fedora 19 x86_64 computer, with mingw64 and all the relevant packages installed. I was working on a personal c++ project, and i decided to make it thread-safe, and so I decided to give Boost.thread synchronization objects a try. As soon as I did, I started to get linker errors related to InterlockedCompareExchange. The following test program illustrates my point:I'm on a fedora 19 x86_64 computer, with mingw6