Subject: Re: Support for Pthreads?
From: Chris Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: rodgilbert <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:00:45 -0400

On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 04:15:24PM -0600, rodgilbert wrote:
>We are looking at CYGWIN for a solution for our cross platform needs.
>
>My question is in relation to pthreads.  Our processes use POSIX threads
>extensively.  Does CYGWIN API contain the pthread API functions?

The DLL can be built with pthreads support.  John Fortin has recently
contributed some support to help extend the pthread support in recent
snapshots.

By default, cygwin is not currently built with pthreads enabled.  You'll
have to build your own DLL to get pthreads in the cygwin DLL.

-chris

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