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

If the code is very heavily *nix-based, you'll probably have the best luck compiling it with Cygwin+GCC. If pthreads is the only *nix dependency and you'd like to avoid the Cygwin dependency, then you should go with Pthreads-win32.

Answer 2

Try http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/. While I've never used that particular library, I've had luck using some windows ports/abstraction layers of POSIX APIs.

Answer 3

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.