Re: [Caml-list] Re: portable truncate

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013, Florent Monnier wrote:
> 2013/7/27, Adrien Nader wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013, Florent Monnier wrote:
> [...]
> >> mingw's additional lib has to be used if we're using thread for
> >> example if I have understood correctly.
> >
> > What makes you think so?
> 
> The sentence below that is on the website of the project:
> 
> "It does depend on a number of DLLs provided by Microsoft themselves,
> as components of the operating system; most notable among these is
> MSVCRT.DLL, the Microsoft C runtime library. Additionally, threaded
> applications must ship with a freely distributable thread support DLL,
> provided as part of MinGW itself"

I'd be on it being outdated.

The "pthreads" libraries on Windows are meant to ease porting of
applications to Windows and I wouldn't be surprised that pthreads-win32
had first been used for that. Then when thread support was finally
implemented without requiring pthreads-win32, updating the documentation
was of course forgotten. :-) 

That just an hypothesis but it seems likely enough for me.

-- 
Adrien Nader