Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Solving the Pthreads issue

[Tony Theodore]

On 7 May 2010 08:06, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
[snip pthreads...]
>
> Independently from that, there is the question on whether to
> provide Pthreads as core package, build directly within GCC in
> order to get OpenMP support, or wither we should keep it as a
> separate package:
>
>    A)  Keep packages "gcc" and "pthreads" separate as they are.
>
>    B)  Entangle "gcc" and "pthreads" in order to try to get
>        OpenMP support.
>
> What do you think about that? I'd like to collect as many opinions
> as possible.

AFAIK, libgomp is a runtime library and can be built entirely
separately from gcc - it doesn't need to be tangled in with it. I'd
rather see a libgomp.mk that uses the gcc tarball (possibly gcc-core
if untarring time is important) and depends on pthreads.

I haven't tested this exactly, but have built pthreads and libgomp
together in a separate makefile - that was mostly motivated by code
organisation and turnaround time in testing. I'm happy to do some
experimenting - is there a small test program to verify openmp support
is working?

Cheers,

Tony