Hi Sebastian, Thanks for the comment. I believe this is a problem for me -- I have a application developed on Linux which fairly extensively uses pthreads and libevent for several different event loops. I will do some tests later, maybe I don't need libevent to have pthread support, I was going along on the train of thought 'on linux I use pthreads & enable thread support in libevent, and Ive tested and everything works well. I should try to replicate this working setup as much as possible on Windows'.
I don't think I actually write to buffers from multiple threads, so I'll test later and see if I actually need this. The other option would be a configure flag, something like '--enable-windows-pthreads' yours, Bobby On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Sebastian Hahn < libevent-us...@sebastianhahn.net> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Bobby Powers wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I ran into a small issue when building libevent 2.0.16-stable under > mingw32. The current configure script disables searching for pthreads when > building for Windows, but this is actually a pthreads implementation > (pthreads-win32) that may be available. This patch fixes configure to > always look for pthreads, as long as threading support is enabled. > > > > I'm new to building for Windows, so let me know if I'm overlooking > anything here :) > > > > yours, > > Bobby > > <0001-configure-don-t-disable-check-for-pthreads-on-Window.patch> > > Hey Bobby, > > thanks for your contribution! > > First off, note that I am not one of libevent's maintainers, so take > everything I say with a big grain of salt. > > The check to disable pthreads on win32 got committed in > 78ed097267f2db83c9b05915c76b5287cb2c89f7 (commit by Nick Mathewson, who > happens to be the libevent maintainer, so I hope he'll weigh in here if > I'm wrong) with the following commit message: > > Never believe that we have pthreads on win32, even if gcc thinks we > do. > > Apparently some newer versions of mingw provide a fake pthreads api to > let applications work even if they don't know about windows threading. > That's nice, but we aren't one of those. > > Unless you have an indication that this has changed, it's probably best > to leave this alone. If this has changed, some kind of detection would > be necessary to ensure that building with older versions of mingw > doesn't produce a broken libevent. > > All that said, is the missing pthreads support a problem for you? Maybe > someone here can suggest a workaround so you don't have to rely on it. > > All the best > > Sebastian*********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. >
