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

[Dmitry Groshev]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 07:45, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is a very interesting work-around. Thanks for sharing!
>
> It might be a good way to fix packages that absolutely need
> Pthreads, and could even have a chance to get accepted by the
> respective upstream project.

This isn't a "workaround", but instead *THE* one and only documented
way to use pthreads-win32 as a static library. See here:
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/sources/pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release/README
section named "Building the library as a statically linkable library".

And because most developers aren't even aware of this issue, the more
prudent solution is to compile pthreads-win32 as a DLL. "Principled"
approach (only static libs!) is all well and good, but not in such
cases when it only causes pain and suffering for project's users.


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-= With best regards, Dmitry Groshev =-