Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Solving the Pthreads issue

[Volker Grabsch]

Gregory Smith <address@hidden> schrieb:
> On Mon, 3 May 2010, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> 
> >Theoretically, there are only 5 libraries left which could
> >cause that trouble again (see below). But I might have
> >overlooked something, so please test thoroughly.
> 
> What about OpenMP support? Did I read that mingw uses pthread
> for that?

Yes, we tried that.

Using the Pthreads-w32 library at that stage was quite
complicated to bootstrap, and never really worked. So I
dropped it, in order to restore simplicity:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/34dfd5a93f6c

Let's hope that in future versions, GCC / libgomp will use
the Win32 API directly to implement OpenMP, without any
need for the Pthreads-w32 layer.

Or, alternatively, let's hope that someone fixes the issues
of Pthreads-w32, which hasn't been further developed since 2006.


Greets,

    Volker

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