Can I run pthread on win95?

Can I run pthread on win95?

[Micha&lstrok]

Hi.

I've downloaded pthreads-dll-1999-08-12 directory (pthreads-dll-1999-09-17
lacks libpthread32.a).

I've no problems with running it with Windows NT && cygwin-b20. 
But.. the same program compiled under Windows 95 with cygwin-b19 doesn't
work at all. So... is there a chance to run it with W95??

Thanx in advance:

Szumek.

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WinCE

[Tristan Savatier]

What would be the procedure to integrate the WinCE support
to the main source tree ?

Would it help if I include the changes to the latest snapshot ?

Who maintains the main source tree ?

-t

Re: Can I run pthread on win95?

[Ross Johnson]

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Hi,

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Micha³ Fryska wrote:

> 
> I've downloaded pthreads-dll-1999-08-12 directory (pthreads-dll-1999-09-17
> lacks libpthread32.a).

I felt I needed to get an updated snapshot out urgently, but will
add the corresponding libpthread32.a as soon as I can.

> I've no problems with running it with Windows NT && cygwin-b20. 
> But.. the same program compiled under Windows 95 with cygwin-b19 doesn't
> work at all. So... is there a chance to run it with W95??

What happens when you run the executable built under WNT on W95?
Ditto for the W95 built program running on WNT?

The pthreads-win32 should not be causing problems under W95, but the
library has not been tested with cygwin, only MSVC and Mingw32.

There are differences between W95/W98 and WNT, which are handled at
run-time by the library. For example, W95/W98 doesn't support the
Win32 TryEnterCriticalSection function, so under these versions of
Win32 pthreads-win32 mutexes are implemented using Win32 mutexes,
whereas under WNT they are implemented using the faster critical
sections.

This is how I currently test the library:

- build the library and DLL under WNT using MSVC, then build and run 
  the tests using MSVC on WNT.

- build libpthread32.a under W98 using Mingw32, then build and run
  the tests using Mingw32 on W98 using this libpthread32.a and the
  WNT/MSVC generated DLL.

Regards.
Ross

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Re: Can I run pthread on win95?

[Micha&lstrok]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Ross Johnson wrote:

> > I've no problems with running it with Windows NT && cygwin-b20. 
> > But.. the same program compiled under Windows 95 with cygwin-b19 doesn't
> > work at all. So... is there a chance to run it with W95??
> 
> What happens when you run the executable built under WNT on W95?
> Ditto for the W95 built program running on WNT?

Ough, thanx! My problem was different, but this question solved my
problem (in some way)! 8-)  When I run on w95 my programm built under WNT
(with cygwin-b20) everything seems to be alright. But.. still, the program
built under w95 doesn't work (it crashes while loading or initializing
pthreads.dll I think - it crashes EVEN if I do not call any function from
pthreads library. It crashes when I link it with libpthreads32.a

> 
> The pthreads-win32 should not be causing problems under W95, but the
> library has not been tested with cygwin, only MSVC and Mingw32.

So.. as I see.. using pthreads32 with cygwin is on my own responsibility
:)

> - build libpthread32.a under W98 using Mingw32, then build and run
>   the tests using Mingw32 on W98 using this libpthread32.a and the
>   WNT/MSVC generated DLL.
But I still may use W95 instead of W98 I hope?

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