Friday 7 September 2007

pthreads-win32 DevPak installer for Dev-C++

After successful installation and usage of pthreads-win32 in my mingw32 projects, I've decided to automate this process. The result is DevPak installation package that will add pthreads functionality to your Dev-C++ installation in seconds.

The package may be downloaded directly from here, or, if you want to read more about it before downloading, from here. Currently, there's no package to get via webupdate, but I hope this is a synchronization issue and will be resolved in due time.

After installation, you may (try to) compile your pthreads dependent programs (the ones that use ). During linking, add -lpthreadGC2 option to the linker. This package contains version of pthreads-w32 that does NOT support thread stack unwinding after call to pthread_exit.