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@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ This directory contains an implementation of pthreads for Win32. Mailing list ------------ -Dec 10, 1998 There is a mailing list for discussing pthreads on Win32 which is managed by Majordomo. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@air.net.au @@ -13,21 +12,54 @@ and place the fllowing text in the message body: Building the library with Cygwin32 or Mingw32 --------------------------------------------- -Feb 10, 1999 +Feb 18, 1999 -If you have a suitable environment run the configure script, otherwise you -can copy Makefile.in to Makefile and edit it as required. +If you have a suitable environment then you can run the configure script, +otherwise you should edit "Makefile" and "config.h" as required. -There is an unresolved bug which shows up as a segmentation fault -(memory access violation) when the library is built using g++. Build -the test program "eyal1.c" and run with an argument of "2" or greater. -The argument is the number of threads to run, excluding the main thread, -so the bug appears with 2 or more worker threads. +gcc cannot be used because the library requires C++ EH. g++ must be usedi +(but see below). -The complete source code in tar format and a precompiled DLL and -matching pthread.h can be found at: +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 +one. See the FAQ Question 2 for more information. + +However, you can use the export library libpthread32.a built under +Mingw32 (not tested under Cygwin32) together with the pthread.dll built +with MSVC. Thanks to Anders Norlander for pointing this out. + +For convenience, the following pre-built files can be downloaded from +the FTP site (see under "Availability" below): + + pthread.h - the standard include file + pthread.dll - built with MSVC cl compiler + pthread.lib - built with MSVC cl compiler + libpthread32.a - built with Mingw32 (use with MSVC pthread.dll) + +With these files in the same directory as your application myapp.c, +you could compile, link and run myapp.c under Mingw32 as follows: + + gcc -o myapp.exe myapp.c -I. -L. -lpthread32 + myapp + +Or put pthread.dll in an appropriate directory in your PATH, +put libpthread32.a in MINGW_ROOT\i386-mingw32\lib, and +put pthread.h in MINGW_ROOT\i386-mingw32\include, then use: + + gcc -o myapp.exe myapp.c -lpthread32 + myapp + + +Availability +------------ + +The complete source code in either unbundled or tar/gzipped format +can be found at: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32 +The pre-built DLL, export libraries and matching pthread.h can be found at: + ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest + Home page: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/ |