From: mka@redes.int.com.mx (Michael Anderson) Subject: Re: What threads are available? 11 Jun 1997 21:06:29 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <339F1B18.5A58A920.cygnus.gnu-win32@redes.int.com.mx> References: <01BC7699.59DEAA90@rem18.co.rmit.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.12 i586) Original-To: Mark A Gregory Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Mark A Gregory wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a program that I am converting from UNIX and it uses the pthread > calls. > > Does anyone know how to convert these to something that will work using the > cygnus tools? I do have such a beast, although it is not in the form of a Unix layer, but rather uses abstraction functions of this form: int CreateMyThread( ... ) { ... #ifdef WINNT thread = CreateThread( ... ); #endif #ifdef UNIX thread = pthread_create( ... ); #endif ... } I have most of the pthread functionality including mutexes and condition variables coded and semi-tested on WinNT. Converting these functions to the Unix layer approach should be simple since I used the pthreads arguments as the arguments to the functions. However I'm swamped to the gills with my current workload and I don't have time to look into this. I also haven't yet figured-out the licensing issues on making the code or objects available - the GPL is much too restrictive. If you're in a hurry, you could code these up yourself, the Win32 approach is simpler than the pthreads way of doing certain operations such as counting semaphores. I used the following references: Advanced Windows by Jeffrey Richter, Microsoft Press ISBN 1-55615-677-4 Practical Unix Programming by Robbins/Robbins, Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-443706-3 -- Mike Anderson mka@redes.int.com.mx Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".