[Ffmpeg-devel] native win32 threads or pthreads-win32?

[Víctor Paesa]

Hi,
> Hmmm... Not one reply... Not even about the "unrecognized option"
> problem in gcc. Should I make a new thread about this issue without so
> many 'win32's written in the subject?
>
> Quoting angustia at arrozcru.no-ip.org:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> While making the win32 builds, I came across the decision of using
>> either native win32 threads (w32thread.c), or pthreads, with the
>> pthreads-win32 library.
>>
>> The builds at http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/ include
>> pthreads-win32, but I didn't get any answer from celtic druid about his
>> decision.
>>
>> Are there any issues that would make me prefer one over the other, such
>> as stability or performance?
>>
>> Also, there are two issues I would like to remember:
>> 1. Some gccs not returning error on -pthread unrecognized option.
>>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/35180
>>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15303
>>    M?ns, did you take a deeper look into this? I couldn't find any
>> simple
>>    solution, and I don't really know what other projects did about this.
>>    Anything besides "don't use gcc versions x to y"?
>>
>> 2. When mingw32 is selected (or os2, or beos), their native threads are
>>    automatically used. If pthreads are also chosen, they will conflict:
>>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/26842
>>    Would it be ok to only include HAVE_W32THREADS if test "$pthreads"
>> != "yes"?
>>    (configure, around line 2012).
>>    I haven't tested this yet. I'll submit a patch when I get this
>> tested.
>>    Could this also be a problem with os2 and beos when pthreads are
>> specified,
>>    or do they not have any libpthreads?
>>

The man gcc page says that the -pthread/-pthreads flags are machine
 dependent options, needed for SPARC, PowerPC, IA-64.
I can only speak for Cygwin, but in this platform is produces a warning.

We could reduce warning verbosity by setting this flag only in the SPARC,
PowerPC, IA-64 specific sections of configure.

The man ld page says nothing about these flags, I believe the
"check_ldflags -pthreads" in configure could be removed.

I am speaking as of gcc 3.4.4 / ld 2.17.50, maybe older versions behave
differently.

Regards,
V?ctor Paesa