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@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@ - PTHREADS-WIN32 SNAPSHOT 1999-04-04 - ---------------------------------- + PTHREADS-WIN32 SNAPSHOT 1999-04-06 + ---------------------------------- Web Site: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/ + FTP Site: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32 Coordinator: Ross Johnson <rpj@ise.canberra.edu.au> We are pleased to announce the availability of a new snapshot of Pthreads-win32, an Open Source Software (OSS) implementation of the Threads component of the POSIX 1003.1c 1995 Standard for Microsoft's -Win32 environment. Some functions from POSIX 1003.1b are supported. +Win32 environment. Some functions from POSIX 1003.1b are supported +including semaphores. Pthreads-win32 is free software, distributed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). @@ -228,18 +230,16 @@ points in applications and libraries: Availability ------------ -For the prebuilt DLL, export libs (for both MSVC and Mingw32), and -pthread.h: +The prebuilt DLL, export libs (for both MSVC and Mingw32), and the header +files (pthread.h, semaphore.h, sched.h) are available along with the +complete source code at: -ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/pthreads-dll-1999-03-16 + ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32 + +The pre-built DLL, export libraries and include files can be found at: + + ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest -Source tree: - -ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/pthreads-snap-1999-03-16.tar.gz - -Source files are available in unpacked form at: - -ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/sources Mailing List @@ -255,26 +255,27 @@ Application Development Environments ------------------------------------ MSVC: -MSVC can be used of course. +MSVC works. Mingw32: (ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/egcs-1.1.1/) Mingw32 must use the thread-safe MSVCRT library. You can link against the export library libpthread32.a built under Mingw32 -together with the version of pthread.dll built with MSVC. +but you must run your application with the version of pthread.dll built +with MSVC. Cygwin: (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/) Cygwin aims to provide a complete POSIX environment on top of Win32, including threads. When this is complete, developers using Cygwin will not need pthreads-win32. At this time, Cygwin has preliminary support for multithreaded -development, however, this is not turned on by default. +development, however, this is not turned on by default. We have not tested +pthreads-win32 against Cygwin. Generally: -For convenience, the following pre-built files can be downloaded from -the FTP site: - - ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/ +For convenience, the following pre-built files are included in the package: - pthread.h - the standard include file + pthread.h - for POSIX 1c threads + semaphore.h - for POSIX 1b semaphores + sched.h - for POSIX 1b scheduling pthread.dll - built with MSVC cl compiler pthread.lib - built with MSVC cl compiler libpthread32.a - built with Mingw32 (use with MSVC pthread.dll) |