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At 05:11 PM 12/11/2000, Andreas Eibach wrote:
> > Cygwin has a thread implementation of its own.  Check out the mail
>archives
> > and source for more details.
>
>Correct, but what's this for regarding glib / gtk+ ?
>AFAIK, Gtk+ _cannot_ make use of the Cygwin built-in thread support.
>
>How would it know?
>Maybe by extensively modifying the Makefile?
>Well _I_ think that it would become a TOUGH task to compile Cygwin built-in
>thread support into gtk.
>In worst case, you will have to re-change every single reference to certain
>headers to get it working in the end.
>
>However, if you know a smart way, I'd be happy to hear from you.



Actually no, I don't know how this could be done.  I've never tried to make
use of thread stuff at all myself.  Hopefully you'll have some luck yourself
(or inspiration from elsewhere!;-))




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