Re: [PATCH] Fix pthread library linking on aarch64-mingw builds

[Andrew Pinski]

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM Evgeny Karpov <evgeny.kar...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 08, 2026, BtbN wrote:
> >       tm_file="${tm_file} aarch64/aarch64-coff.h"
> >       tm_file="${tm_file} aarch64/cygming.h"
> > +     if test x$enable_threads = xposix ; then
> > +             tm_file="${tm_file} i386/mingw-pthread.h"
> > +     fi
> >       tm_file="${tm_file} mingw/mingw32.h"
> >       tm_file="${tm_file} mingw/mingw-stdint.h"
>
> Is it possible to get more context when it is needed, and why win32 native
> threading not used?

The context is https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/pull/2503 .
Basically BtbN does mingw builds with pthread threading because it
makes things like building ffmpeg easier to build.

Thanks,
Andrea

>
> Regards,
> Evgeny