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Re: pthreads status? [was Re: [Fwd: Many changes in latest snapshot]]
- To: John Fortin <fortinj at ibm dot net>
- Subject: Re: pthreads status? [was Re: [Fwd: Many changes in latest snapshot]]
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at nanotech dot wisc dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:32:19 -0600
- cc: "cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
John Fortin <fortinj@ibm.net> writes:
>
> I seem to recall from the pthreads-win32 webpage that win95/98 are not
> supported because
> of the following... ( from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/ )
> The latter two need to be built on Win NT before they will be able to
> link applications which use
> pthreads-win32. This is because the Win95 kernel32.dll does not include
> the functions _beginthreadex and
> _endthreadex.
Should be fixed by now ... the *threadex functions are exported by MSVCRT
DLL, not CRTDLL. Either way, not usable by Cygwin.
> Also note that neither Cygwin nor Mingw32 are able to build the library
> at this point because they lack
> thread-safe exception handling in g++ (the library uses exceptions and
> so building with gcc, although the
> code should compile, is not recommended if you want proper behaviour).
I added thread-safe C++ exceptions to Mingw32, and pthreads-win32 now works
like a charm.
> I do my coding on Win98, so I can't compile the code. I can't comment on
> the g++ exception handling.
I ran all the tests on my laptop, which runs Win98.
See, things do change for the better ;->
Regards,
Mumit