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Re: Pthreads in cygwin
- To: Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Subject: Re: Pthreads in cygwin
- From: Christian Brunschen <cb@df.lth.se>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:42:47 +0100 (CET)
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stipe Tolj wrote:
> > I was wondering how I would go about using pthreads in cygwin? The b20.1
> > release does not appear to support them, but more recent snapshots do
> > contain what looks like pthreads support.
>
> That's right. Recent snapshots support the --enable-threadsafe for the
> configure process. The build cygwin1.dll and dependend libs will implement
> some pthread_* functions as usually available within the libpthread.a
> library (i.e. MIT's pthread) on other systems.
>
> As Geoffrey and other from Cygnus have stated the pthread functions within
> the latest snapshots are *very expertimental* and may not work at all.
Ah, great :)
Thanks for your help!
>
> I have tried to compile some simple example programs using pthread
> functions. They do build, but crash with a segmentation fault error on a
> Win98 box.
I'll just wait a while longer before trying to use it, then.
>
> Regards,
> Stipe
Vielen Dank und Beste Gruesse(*),
// Christian Brunschen
(*): Diese Tastatur hat natuerlich weder das U" noch das SZ ...
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