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12 <package name="mingw32-pthreads-w32" alias="pthreads-w32 pthreads">
13 <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
14 <description lang="en" title="POSIX threading library for Win32" >
16 pthreads-w32 seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality
17 implementation of pthreads for Windows. Pthreads is an API for
18 writing multithreaded applications following the POSIX standard.
21 The mingw32-pthreads-w32 package provides the documentation for the
22 pthreads-w32 library, as well as the related development files. The
23 associated mingw32-libpthread package provides the runtime library.
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56 <package name="mingw32-libpthreadgc" alias="libpthreadgc mingw32-libpthread libpthread">
57 <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
58 <description lang="en" title="POSIX threading library for Win32" >
60 NOTE: The 2.9.1 release delivers this library as part of the
61 pthreads-w32-2.9.1-1-mingw32-dll.tar.lzma file. This DLL file is a
62 dependency for gcc-core-4.8.1 and will be installed as such when using
66 pthreads-w32 seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality
67 implementation of pthreads for Windows. Pthreads is an API for
68 writing multithreaded applications following the POSIX standard.
71 There are two mingw32 versions of the pthread-w32 runtime library: the
72 standard one, provided by this package, is called libpthreadgc but may
73 also be referred to as 'libpthread'. The non-standard one uses C++
74 exception handling, and is called libpthreadgce. (Note that the
75 standard library may be used successfully with C++ code; indeed, on
76 most *nix platorms the system pthreads implementation follows the
77 behavior of mingw32-libpthreadgc, and NOT the behavior of the 'GCE'
78 version). We recommend that most users rely on mingw32-libpthreadgc
79 ('GC') and not mingw32-libpthreadgce ('GCE').
82 The mingw32-libpthreadgc and mingw32-libpthreadgce packages provide
83 the two runtime libraries (most people need not install the 'GCE'
84 one). The associated mingw32-pthreads-w32 package provides the
85 documentation for the pthreads-w32 library, as well as the related
86 development files. The mingw32-libquserex package provides optional
87 support for enhanced standards conformance of the GCE runtime.
90 mingw32-libpthreadgc is a required component of the MinGW Compiler
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96 <licence tarname="pthreads-w32-%-mingw32-%-lic.tar.lzma" />
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103 <release tarname="libpthreadgc-2.9.0-mingw32-pre-20110507-2-dll-2.tar.lzma" />
107 <package name="mingw32-libpthreadgce" alias="libpthreadgce" >
108 <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
109 <description lang="en" title="POSIX threading library for Win32" >
111 NOTE: The 2.9.1 release delivers this library as part of the
112 pthreads-w32-2.9.1-1-mingw32-dll.tar.lzma file. This DLL file is a
113 dependency for gcc-core-4.8.1 and will be installed as such when using
117 pthreads-w32 seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality
118 implementation of pthreads for Windows. Pthreads is an API for
119 writing multithreaded applications following the POSIX standard.
122 There are two mingw32 versions of the pthread-w32 runtime library: the
123 non-standard one, provided by this package, is called libpthreadgce,
124 and uses C++ exception handling. The standard runtime is called
125 mingw32-libpthreadgc, and may also be referred to as
126 mignw32-libpthread. (Note that the standard library may be used
127 successfully with C++ code; indeed, on most *nix platorms the system
128 pthreads implementation follows the behavior of mingw32-libpthreadgc,
129 and NOT the behavior of the 'GCE' version). We recommend that most
130 users rely on mingw32-libpthreadgc ('GC') and not
131 mingw32-libpthreadgce ('GCE').
134 The mingw32-libpthreadgc and mingw32-libpthreadgce packages provide
135 the two runtime libraries (most people need not install the 'GCE'
136 one). The associated mingw32-pthreads-w32 package provides the
137 documentation for the pthreads-w32 library, as well as the related
138 development files. The mingw32-libquserex package provides optional
139 support for enhanced standards conformance of the GCE runtime.
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151 <release tarname="libpthreadgce-2.9.0-mingw32-pre-20110507-2-dll-2.tar.lzma" />
155 <package name="mingw32-libquserex" alias="libquserex" >
156 <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
157 <description lang="en" title="POSIX threading library for Win32" >
159 NOTE: The 2.9.1 release does not deliver this library. This decision
160 was based on the number of downloads for the library and the fact that
164 pthreads-w32 seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality
165 implementation of pthreads for Windows. Pthreads is an API for
166 writing multithreaded applications following the POSIX standard.
167 libquserex is an optional library to enable enhanced standards
168 conformance of the non-standard mingw32-libpthreadgce ('GCE') runtime.
169 It provides access to a a kernel mode driver, AlertDrv.sys, which if
170 installed allows ordinary users to exploit the Win32 QueueUserAPCEx
174 There are two mingw32 versions of the pthread-w32 runtime library: the
175 non-standard one provided by mingw32-libpthreadgce ('GCE') uses C++
176 exceptions, and for full POSIX conformance needs a kernel mode driver
177 installed. The standard runtime, mingw32-libpthreadgc ('GC') does not
178 require that driver for full standards conformance, and may be used
179 with C++ code; we recommend that most users rely on
180 mingw32-libpthreadgc ('GC') and not mingw32-libpthreadgce ('GCE').
183 However, for those that wish to experiment with the non-standard
184 ('GCE') runtime, this optional helper library may also be of use --
185 provided the kernel mode driver, available from mingw.org, is also
186 installed. Note that the kernel mode driver can not currently be
187 installed on W7 (64bit) or Windows Server 2008R2 (64bit) because those
188 operating systems require kernel mode drivers to be digitally signed,
189 so this mingw32-libquserex package is rather useless on those
193 The kernel mode driver is available at mingw.org or mirror site,
194 packaged as an InnoSetup installer executable called
195 QueueUserAPCEx-installer.exe.
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207 <package name="mingw32-libpthread-old" alias="libpthread-old">
208 <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
209 <description lang="en" title="POSIX threading library for Win32" >
211 pthreads-w32 seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality
212 implementation of pthreads for Windows. Pthreads is an API for
213 writing multithreaded applications following the POSIX standard.
216 The mingw32-libpthread-old package provides the MinGW pthreads-w32
217 runtime dll associated with MinGW GCC 4.5.2 and older. Due to an
218 unfortunate naming choice, upgrading to newer GCC will also install
219 the newer, renamed pthreads-w32 DLLs, removing the old DLL. While the
220 may not affect the new GCC, threaded applications compiled using the
221 older compiler will break, as they will miss this runtime library.
222 Therefore, the old runtime library is provided here using a new
223 package name: mingw32-libpthread-old, so that it can be (re)installed
224 parallel to the new pthreads-w32 runtime libraries.
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