On 23:50 Thu 18 Jan , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Quoting Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: Re: win related [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] opensm: sigusr1: syslog() > > fixes] > > > > On 07:00 Thu 18 Jan , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > What about pure opensource - http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/? It > > > > is licensed under LGPL, I see on the net many positive reports about > > > > stability and usability. > > > > > > I used it to do a windows port of linux complib at some point and opensm > > > seemed to work fine with it. What it was lacking at that point was > > > support for 64 bit applications, and for some reason (which is > > > still unclear to me) there was a strong desire to run opensm in 64 bit > > > mode. > > > Seems to have been fixed now, BTW. > > > > So this seems to be good option for OpenSM on Windows. Right? > > No idea. Distributing a copy of the pthread DLL with opensm does not > look like a problem. But is it worth it?
Sure, it makes windows porting much more transparent and let us to use standard *nix stuff w/out #ifndef WIN32. Other (generic) benefit is that posix is more standard and powerful than wrappers like complib. Sasha _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
