I added TinyThread++ in the contrib dir, and basically replaced boost::mutex with tthread::mutex.
With this patch, there should no longer be a need for Boost. Even in the Boost workaround build, assimp can be made thread safe.
The patch was made against SVN revision 824.
Patch file (vs revision 824).
Closing this issue. We're working to get rid of all mutexes in assimp, so there is no need for this.
Bye, Alex