Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: pthreads / NT Threads under win32

[Robert McGwier]

BUT, pthreads/win32 is available from cygwin.  It compiles with mingw or 
msvc.  To my mind, they have done a good job.  Threading code that 
Brickle wrote ran immediately under pthreads/win32.  There is some 
chance omnithreads would work using this.

Bob





Don Ward wrote:
> > Can any of you who build GNU Radio under MinGW or Cygwin please let me
> > know whether our omnithread implementation ends up using pthreads or
> > NT threads? 
> > You should be able to tell by looking at the output from running
> > configure.  If you see a message "checking for NT threads" it means we
> > didn't find pthreads.
>
> GNU Radio uses pthreads on Cygwin, but uses NT threads on MSYS/MinGW.
>
> > Why I ask, is that I'm considering removing the support for NT
> > Threads in gr_omnithread.  If we did this, we could then take advantage
> > of the posix thread cancellation features, which aren't currently
> > available in the omnithread interface.
>
> Could you elaborate on what you want to do?  Would we use pthreads
> directly or would we still be using omnithread?  Should we find out
> if Pthreads-win32 http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32 can be used in
> GNU Radio?  I would be happy to help if that is what is needed.
>
> I prefer to use GNU Radio on MSYS/Mingw and am willing to put in some
> effort to keep it running there.
>
> -- Don Ward
>
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