mingw32 posix线程库

Question

I have installed MinGW on my windows7 machine, using instructions from here . Basically I used the GUI installer assistant called mingw-get-setup.exe. The installation manager allowed me to select a package called mingw32-libpthreadgc which installs bin/pthreadGC2.dll and bin/pthreadGCE2.dll .

To my knowledge that is not sufficient to compile code depending on the pthread library. Eg trying to compile a file with a header-include like #include "pthread.h" - to no surprise - results in a "file not found" compile error. I can't find that header in my MinGW directory. If I use includes/headers from elsewhere, I'm afraid they might not match with the DLL's interface. How is this meant to be working?

(Furthermore I like to use CodeBlocks as the IDE. How would I set up a simple "HelloWorld"-like pthread program to get it all to work? There seems to be a lot of conflicting messages out there on how to set it up. Use "-pthread" vs "-lpthread". Set it in compiler and linker settings, right? Copy-paste the DLL's? What else???)

Answer 1

I had similar problem, https://www.sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ this did job for me, I used this in combination with mingw32. It also has nice README file.