Using pthread.h on a windows build

Question

I have a codebase that makes extensive use of pthread.h. On a windows visual studio project, this obviously doesn\'t work since pthreads is a unix utility.

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Answer 1

I would recommend boost as a library that contains a platform-independent thread abstraction. I don't think you'll find any attempt to call the pthread functions themselves to be satisfying. It's also not very hard to map pthread to Win32 for yourself.