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Re: [ITP] mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads 3.0b_svn5726-1


On 4/7/2013 17:47, JonY wrote:
> winpthreads is a pthreads implementation from mingw-w64. The ABI is
> incompatible with pthreads-win32. One of the major differences is that
> winpthreads uses scalar handles, so it is a bit more compatible to other
> packages that assume int type handles.
> 
> I have successfully built the 64bit cross compiler for cygwin64. There
> are no changes to the -1 release other than some .cygport modifications.
> 
> For now, I intend to push it to 64bit Cygwin only, once gcc 4.7 for the
> 32bit cygwin hits release, I will push it there too.
> 
> There are some files in the package that replaces some of the
> mingw-w64-headers CRT headers, this is done on purpose. will
> cygcheck/setup have any issues?
> 
> Since it is not in any major distros, I guess it will have to go through
> a vote.
> 
> setup.hint:
> 
> category: Devel
> requires:
> sdesc: "winpthreads for MinGW-w64 (64bit) toolchain"
> ldesc: "winpthreads (pthreads) for MinGW-w64 (64bit) target."
> 

Oops, forgot to include link.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Cygwin%20Snapshots/setup.hint
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Cygwin%20Snapshots/mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-3.0b_svn5726-1.tar.bz2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Cygwin%20Snapshots/mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-3.0b_svn5726-1-src.tar.bz2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Cygwin%20Snapshots/mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-debuginfo/setup.hint
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Cygwin%20Snapshots/mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-debuginfo/mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-debuginfo-3.0b_svn5726-1.tar.bz2


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