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@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ or, What are all these pthread*.dll and pthread*.lib files?
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-Simply, you only use one of them, but you need to choose carefully.
+Simple, use either pthreadGC.* if you use GCC, or pthreadVC.* if you
+use MSVC.
+
+Otherwise, you need to choose carefully and know WHY.
The most important choice you need to make is whether to use a
version that uses exceptions internally, or not (there are versions
@@ -53,9 +56,9 @@ since this appears to be the assumption commercial pthreads implementations make. Therefore, if you use an EH version
of pthreads-win32 then you may be under the illusion that
your application will be portable, when in fact it is likely to
-behave very differently linked with other pthreads libraries.
+behave differently when linked with other pthreads libraries.
-Now you may be asking: why have you kept the EH versions of
+Now you may be asking: then why have you kept the EH versions of
the library?
There are a couple of reasons:
@@ -338,6 +341,10 @@ from the FTP site (see under "Availability" below): pthreadGCE.a - derived from pthreadGCE.dll
pthreadGC.dll - built with Mingw32 GCC
pthreadGC.a - derived from pthreadGC.dll
+
+As of August 2003 pthreads-win32 is built and tested using the MinGW + MsysDTK
+environment current as of that date or later. The following file MAY be needed
+for older MinGW environments.
gcc.dll - needed to build and run applications that use
pthreadGCE.dll.
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