While it is hard to make a decision for all packages altogether, specific
packages should have an easy way to set their preferred default.
2019-05-18 Bruno Haible
threadlib: Provide an easy way to avoid mingw's winpthreads library.
* m4/threadlib.m4 (gl_AVOID_WINPTHREAD): New
On 18.05.2019 16:07, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Opinions?
I don't use gnulib much, but as far as threads are concerned:
Applications can use Windows threading APIs, if they need limited threading
support and know exactly what they want, and if the developers know how to use
Windows API correctly.
Hi,
What should be the default threading API used by the module 'threadlib'
(and thus also 'lock', 'rwlock', 'cond', etc.) on mingw. There are two choices:
--enable-threads=windows
does not need non-Microsoft DLLs.
--enable-threads=posix
links against winpthreads.dll.
(Whereas Ross
