Re: [Caml-list] Re: portable truncate

["Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net>]

On 07/27/2013 10:53 PM, Adrien Nader wrote:
> 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 I'd be on it being outdated.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.
> 

There was a time when some MinGW-compiled applications depended on mingw10.dll that had to setup/cleanup something related to exceptions. 
According to [1] in mingw-w64 this is no longer required because their runtime includes the required support:

I haven't used MinGW (or in fact Windows) since quite a long time so I don't know what the situation is today, but since mingw-w64 can build both 32 and 64-bit applications this is probably not an issue anymore.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Feature%20list

--Edwin