Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] i686-pc-mingw32-g++: unrecognized option '-pthread'

[Tony Theodore]

On 15 May 2010 07:18, Natalie Tasman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Can someone briefly explain why I shouldn't use -pthread in my
> cross-compilation?  I'm getting the message "i686-pc-mingw32-g++:
> unrecognized option '-pthread'"

Simplest reason is that pthreads is a library, not a compiler option.
You want -lpthread instead. There are reasons you might not want to
use the library though, see the recent thread about it.

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2010-05/msg00026.html

Tony