Thank you guys, thank you!

[Ales Pour]

>         Now for some additional question: how is it possible to compile
> against the pthread.lib, not the DLL, to produce a (more) static
> executable, so that I don't have to ship pthread.dll? Sorry if this
> is an elementary question, I'm new to this.

As far as I know, .lib files are import libraries that doesn't contain
any code (which resides in according .dll); there's no way to have win32
static binary as we know it from unix...

>         Also, does anyone know of a useful implementation of the
> fork() Unix system call ?

Have a look at CreateProcess().

>         And finally, does anyone know of an implementation of
> POSIX shared memory scheme for windows?

Don't know, sorry.

Regards,
	Ales