On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jason Garrett-Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Roger Pack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello. I noticed in a recent discussion that seemingly windows xp >>> support had been "dropped" to clean up code: >>> >>> http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/357754-%5BHEVC%5D-x265-EXE-mingw-builds?goto=newpost >> >> I would describe the situation more as we needed to use a >> synchronization primitive (condition variable) in order to prevent >> deadlocks and that primitive is not supported on XP. This wasn't a >> code cleanup, it was fixing a serious race hazard. > > x264 supports condition variables on XP just fine.
I see that now in win32thread.c around line 117, thanks for the pointer. So it is definitely possible to mimic a condition var on XP. Any volunteers to adapt this to our threading.h? -- Steve Borho _______________________________________________ x265-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/x265-devel
