This patch series enables building winpthreads with MSVC. The missing steps were about removing uses of GCC extensions, in favor of using functions already provided by windows.h. MinGW also provides these functions, so there should be no need for redefinitions in winpthreads.
If there's interest, further work could switch to C11 atomics [1] instead of Windows Interlocked Variable Access [2] and WinAPI memory barriers that I've used to replace GCC old __sync extensions [3]. GCC introduced support for C11 atomics in 4.9, and MSVC recently introduced partial, but sufficient support for C11 atomics [4]. [1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/atomic [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/interlocked-variable-access [3]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fsync-Builtins.html [4]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-atomics-in-visual-studio-2022-version-17-5-preview-2/ Thanks to Martin Storsjö and LIU Hao for reviewing this patch series. Changes from v2: Protect symbols that may be exposed if winpthreads is build as a static library by putting them in the '_pthread_' namespace. Improve commit messages. Changes from v1: Improves how winpthreads uses recent WinAPI functions (e.g., GetTickCount64) and respects the current way of loading theses functions at runtime with GetModuleHandle and GetProcAddress. It uses a function tagged with the constructor attribute for MinGW and clang-cl, and a CRT initialization and linker trick to use a single 'winpthreads_init' function to load these required WinAPI functions. Antonin Décimo (8): winpthreads: Check if requested stack size fits in an unsigned int winpthreads: Fix pthread_create_wrapper type winpthreads: Use YieldProcessor in pthread_spin_lock winpthreads: Replace GCC's __sync comparisons with WinAPI functions winpthreads: Don't use GCC __sync_synchronize winpthreads: Unify discovery of recent WinAPI functions winpthreads: Simplify placing a symbol in a section winpthreads: Use GetModuleHandleA to prevent Unicode errors .../winpthreads/include/pthread.h | 6 +-- mingw-w64-libraries/winpthreads/src/clock.c | 31 ++----------- mingw-w64-libraries/winpthreads/src/misc.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++--- mingw-w64-libraries/winpthreads/src/misc.h | 14 +----- mingw-w64-libraries/winpthreads/src/mutex.c | 15 +++---- .../winpthreads/src/spinlock.c | 12 ++--- mingw-w64-libraries/winpthreads/src/thread.c | 18 +++++--- 7 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0 _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
