What's the suggested way to build pthreads?

[Mike Kinghan]

MSVC 6.0 does work fine, but I think Magnus is sating he wants to do without
it.

Mike Kinghan
System Union

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Frisbie, Jr. [ mailto:phil@hawksoft.com ]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:30 PM
To: Magnus Zakrisson
Cc: Pthreads-Win32@Sources.Redhat.Com
Subject: Re: What's the suggested way to build pthreads?


I have always built the library with MSVC 5.0, so 6.0 should also work
fine.

> Magnus Zakrisson wrote:
> 
> I've read in the FAQ that the suggested way to build pthreads is using
> Mingw32 with the MSVCRT library. But all the links to Mingw32 seems
> very old (from the previous millenium) and some links doesn't even
> exist anylonger.
> 
> So what is the answer today, how should I build pthreads?
> And if the answer still is that I should use Mingw32 from where do I
> get it and the other stuff that I may need?
> 
> I have Cygwin 1.0 and VC++ 6.0 on Win2000. I also have a collegue who
> have the same environment as I do except for VC++ which he doesn't
> want to install if doesn't have to (he's working in another project
> and they don't use VC++).
> 
> Thanks,
> Magnus

Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Hawk Software
http://www.hawksoft.com