Can I get Unix's pthread.h to compile in Windows?

Question

If I try to compile a program with

#include 

in it, I get the error:

pthread.h: No such file or directory
         


        

Answer 1

There are, as i recall, two distributions of the gnu toolchain for windows: mingw and cygwin.

I'd expect cygwin work - a lot of effort has been made to make that a "stadard" posix environment.

The mingw toolchain uses msvcrt.dll for its runtime and thus will probably expose msvcrt's "thread" api: _beginthread which is defined in