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authorrpj <rpj>2000-01-04 10:19:28 +0000
committerrpj <rpj>2000-01-04 10:19:28 +0000
commita378d97dc9d9eadaef00a9f01816948db5f3a796 (patch)
tree654435cc0a85156c2a9b4793ab7d8e0da8424e32 /README
parent27d833666dfd72cc6e74c3900d3e8e66321bea3a (diff)
Main changes (see ChangeLog diff for details and attributions):-
- asynchronous cancellation added - attempt to hide internal exceptions from applications - kernel32 load/free problem fixed - new tests - changes only to comments in some tests
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@@ -20,11 +20,18 @@ Acknowledgements
Pthreads-win32 is based substantially on a Win32 Pthreads implementation
contributed by John E. Bossom <jebossom@cognos.com>.
-See the 'MAINTAINERS' file for the list of contributors.
+See the 'CONTRIBUTORS' file for the list of contributors.
-Why you cannot build the library with Cygwin or Mingw32 yet
------------------------------------------------------------
+Building under Mingw32
+----------------------
+
+pthread.dll can be build with the current development version of mingw32.
+Use the GNUmakefile with GNU make should do the right thing.
+
+
+Why you cannot build the library with Cygwin yet
+------------------------------------------------
The DLL pthread.dll still cannot be built using g++ due to non thread-safe
exception handling in g++. Thanks to Kevin Ruland for researching this