Re: [libmicrohttpd] Building under MinGW

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 7/12/2009 10:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I see messages in the archives that show people building under MinGW 
> with gcc 3.4.5.  I'm using gcc 4.2.1, and when I run ./configure I get
>
> checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... no
> checking if compiler supports -pthread... no
> checking if compiler supports -pthreads... no
> checking if compiler supports -threads... configure: error: Your system 
> is not s
> upporting pthreads!
>
> I see there's a pthreads for win32 at
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/
>
> I built this, and put the files
>
> libpthreadGC2.a
> pthreadGC2.dll
> libpthreadGCE2.a
> pthreadGCE2.dll
>
> into MinGW's lib directory, and pthread.h into its include directory, 
> but I still get the same configure error as above.  Can someone let me 
> know what I need to do instead?

I have made some progress since that message (I dropped the GC2 from the 
names).  I can now get past configure, but I still get compile errors.

Has anyone else done a build under MinGW lately?

Duncan Murdoch