Pthreads in cygwin

Thu Feb 18 02:31:00 GMT 1999

> I was wondering how I would go about using pthreads in cygwin? The b20.1
> release does not appear to support them, but more recent snapshots do
> contain what looks like pthreads support.

That's right. Recent snapshots support the --enable-threadsafe for the
configure process. The build cygwin1.dll and dependend libs will implement
some pthread_* functions as usually available within the libpthread.a
library (i.e. MIT's pthread) on other systems.
As Geoffrey and other from Cygnus have stated the pthread functions within
the latest snapshots are *very expertimental* and may not work at all.
I have tried to compile some simple example programs using pthread
functions. They do build, but crash with a segmentation fault error on a
Win98 box.
Regards,
Stipe
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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
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