[ITP] mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads 3.0b_svn5726-1

[JonY]

On 4/8/2013 15:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  7 17:47, JonY wrote:
>> winpthreads is a pthreads implementation from mingw-w64. The ABI is
>> incompatible with pthreads-win32. One of the major differences is that
>> winpthreads uses scalar handles, so it is a bit more compatible to other
>> packages that assume int type handles.
>>
>> I have successfully built the 64bit cross compiler for cygwin64. There
>> are no changes to the -1 release other than some .cygport modifications.
>>
>> For now, I intend to push it to 64bit Cygwin only, once gcc 4.7 for the
>> 32bit cygwin hits release, I will push it there too.
>>
>> There are some files in the package that replaces some of the
>> mingw-w64-headers CRT headers, this is done on purpose. will
>> cygcheck/setup have any issues?
>>
>> Since it is not in any major distros, I guess it will have to go through
>> a vote.
> 
> Isn't that rather just a necessary library extensions to the cross
> toolchain?  I'm not so sure we really need a vote here.  Feel free
> to upload.
> 
> Btw., would you mind to release new 32 bit w32api headers and runtime?
> The latest changes to include the intrinsics in kernel32.a were pretty
> important fixes for the Cygwin toolchain I think.
> 

OK, I'll only be free to do it this weekend though.



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