On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:22 PM, veegee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi K. Frank: > >>> I have taken the liberty of copying this post to the mingw-w64 list, >>> as it's relevant there, as well. > > No Problem. Honestly, I am not familiar with mingw-w64 project and the > relation between > mingw and mingw-w64. At least intitially I thought it was 64-bit version of > minGW.
That's just one part of it. We also add additional features. >>> Well, it depends on what your issue with pthreads-win32 is. > > No issue at all - I like it, in fact - but don't want any external libs in > my console app. > >>> As I understand it, the mingw-w64 team (who should correct me if I'm >>> wrong) wanted 1) to >>> have the pthread handle be a scalar type (as it is in most (all?) unix >>> implementations, but not in pthreads-win32), and 2) avoid some of the > l>> icensing issues that arise with pthreads-win32. So they wrote their own >>> pthreads implementation for windows (winpthreads I think they call it). >>> If >>> mingw-w64's winpthreads resolves any of your issues with pthreads-win32, >>> you can get std::thread out of the box with mingw-w64 (as I understand >>> it, >>> not having tried it myself yet). > > Do you think it is a possibility to just port the mingw-64 code to mingw ? > Not familiar > with any licensing issues involved - I am assuming both are open sourced > (MINGW runtime is public domain, other parts GPL, don't know about > mingw-w64) The big thing that was have is the winpthreads library, which is under very active development. Kai can comment more about it. It should solve your probelms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
