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

[Gregory Smith]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Volker Grabsch wrote:

> However, the main questions remains: Should we patch libgomp
> to work with static phreads, or should we build pthreads as
> a shared library?

Sort of topical, at one point someone submitted a patch to mingw that 
removed the dependency on mingwm10.dll: 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-08/msg01207.html

If that patch is viable (I think it was rejected because it doesn't work 
with Windows 95/98/ME, which I don't know if we care about) then it would 
argue in favor of patching and using static pthreads. You wouldn't need 
any DLLs.

> IIRC there is at least one person on this list who requested
> OpenMP support, and thus should be able to write a quick
> "Hello World" that uses OpenMP.

I asked about OpenMP and would be happy to write a simple test program. I 
may not get to it right away, though. Also, I do not understand the static 
pthread deadlock in detail, so I'm not sure how helpful that test program 
will be. If you just want to test that OpenMP is operable, I can do that.

Gregory