Getting std::thread/mutex to work under Win7 with mingw and g++ 4.7.2

Question

Greetings,

I\'ve recently moved out of my unix shelter to test a supposedly cross-platform networking library only to discover that mingw doesn\'t like to

Answer 1

Look also here: https://github.com/meganz/mingw-std-threads This is a lighter, native implementation of std::thread and others, without using the win32 port of pthreads.