Portability of pthreads-win32 over various windows compilers

Question

I\'m using pthreads-win32 to allow threading support for windows.

I have a cross platform project that uses pthreads and I want to make it work on windows with various c

Answer 1

Well, paxdiablo has apparently summed it up here. But from my past experience with this library, I can add a couple of things here.

Firstly, I had used a subset of the library's functions with MSVC 2008 without any problems whatsoever.

Secondly, some of my colleagues have got it going on the x86_64 (with MSVC2008 and MinGW). They haven't faced any issue either after many a cycles of beta and QA testing. Though I haven't tested it myself so can't be very sure on this one.

So by the looks of the things, it might be fit for use. The only caveat here is that if you find any issue you will be at the mercy of a not-so active mailing list (or perhaps you may want to get your hands dirty with the source code or something like that).