Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-24 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:32 AM, K. Frank wrote: > > but it will cut off XP users completely due to how > > conditional variables are only available in Vista and later. > > Yes, windows condition variables are not supported in xp, so the > above scheme only works for vista and later. > A little

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread K. Frank
Hello All! On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:13 PM, JonY wrote: > On 3/24/2014 01:20, Adrien Nader wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014, LRN wrote: * Win32 threading * POSIX threading >>> >>> It's a matter of adding native-W32-threads-using code to GCC. Doing >>> that will remove winpthreads dependency. S

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread JonY
On 3/24/2014 01:20, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014, LRN wrote: >>> * Win32 threading * POSIX threading >> >> It's a matter of adding native-W32-threads-using code to GCC. Doing >> that will remove winpthreads dependency. So far no one seems to be >> bothered enough to code this. > > Th

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread Adrien Nader
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014, LRN wrote: > > * Win32 threading * POSIX threading > > It's a matter of adding native-W32-threads-using code to GCC. Doing > that will remove winpthreads dependency. So far no one seems to be > bothered enough to code this. The main difficulty is in handling all the OS versi

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread LRN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23.03.2014 19:59, John E. / TDM wrote: > On 3/23/2014 4:12 AM, JonY wrote: >> On 3/19/2014 23:49, Torbjörn Rathsman wrote: >>> The goal of C++ is that features not used should be possible to >>> disable. If the C++ thread library is not used I would

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread Adrien Nader
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014, John E. / TDM wrote: > On 3/23/2014 4:12 AM, JonY wrote: > > On 3/19/2014 23:49, Torbjörn Rathsman wrote: > >> The goal of C++ is that features not used should be possible to disable. If > >> the C++ thread library is not used I would like an option -no-std-threads > >> or som

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread John E. / TDM
On 3/23/2014 4:12 AM, JonY wrote: > On 3/19/2014 23:49, Torbjörn Rathsman wrote: >> The goal of C++ is that features not used should be possible to disable. If >> the C++ thread library is not used I would like an option -no-std-threads >> or something. *snip* > If you don't need C++11 thread suppo

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread JonY
On 3/19/2014 23:49, Torbjörn Rathsman wrote: > The goal of C++ is that features not used should be possible to disable. If > the C++ thread library is not used I would like an option -no-std-threads > or something. > You misunderstand, the C++ thread implementation does not allow that. libgcc itse

[Mingw-w64-public] libwinpthreads dependency should be optional

2014-03-23 Thread Torbjörn Rathsman
The goal of C++ is that features not used should be possible to disable. If the C++ thread library is not used I would like an option -no-std-threads or something. Also, I wonder if the libwinpthread will conflict with native Win32 threads. -