Bob Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure/build apr on windows with threads. I already see > that apr can be built with cl and windows threads. However, currently > I'd like to avoid using cl, since my project uses the autotools. > > I have a few questions, > > - can apr be built with mingw and cygwin posix threads? > - can apr be built with mingw and native posix threads? > - can apr be built with cygwin g++ and cygwin posix threads? > - can apr be built with cygwin g++ and native posix threads? > - can apr be built with either mingw or g++ and with any thread library? > > If it's not already documented, it should be added somewhere, as I've > spent several hours trying to solves this problem already. I'm sure it > would benefit a lot of people.
There has been some work in this direction - there are more patches pending in http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/. The issue with using cygwin beyond-compiling is that you are stacking two portability layers on top of each other. Mileage may vary, but it should look similar to a Hummer. Similarly with non-native threads, if you are running under the Win32-NT subsystem. If you really want to run efficiently and effectively under posix, I suggest SFU which is a native port, or investigate vmware or the future subsystem solutions coming out from Netware. And as we say - patches are ALWAYS welcome for consideration if you can get past specific issues, but I'd encourage that ./configure should detect that it is building to the Win32 API unless otherwise informed with --options. Bill
