Turn off clr option for header file with std::mutex

Question

I have a Visual Studio project that contains files with managed code and files with unmanaged code. The project has the CLR support, but when I add a file where I do not nee

Answer 1

There is the possibility to use the workaround known as the Pointer To Implementation (pImpl) idiom.

Following is a brief example:

// Foo.h
#include <memory>

class Foo
{
public:

  Foo();

  // forward declaration to a nested type
  struct Mstr;
  std::unique_ptr<Mstr> impl;
};


// Foo.cpp
#include <mutex>

struct Foo::Mstr
{
  std::mutex m;
};

Foo::Foo()
  : impl(new Mstr())
{
}