Win32 Port ??

[Guillaume Thomassin]

Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2000, Gildas BAZIN wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if you were working on a win32 port of the vlc or if
> > someone had tried to compile it with the cygnus tools for win32. It's
> > not that I'm a really a great fan of windows, but a lot of networks
> > still have windows as workstations so it could be a good idea to make a
> > win32 version.
> 
>    Noone in the team really bothered about a win32 port because the code
> was very X11-dependant at the beginning. Now that we have an abstraction
> layer between the main app and the plugins, it could work.
> 
>    The main problem could be the threading. What does win32 use as a
> threading library ? We have a wrapper located in include/threads.h
> which can use the pthreads (as found under Linux and most Unices), the
> c-threads (used under the Hurd until the pthreads port is finished) and
> the BeOS threads. Whatever win32 uses, I think it would be easy to add a
> wrapper.
> 

pthreads have been ported to Win32 (if I remember well only some
functionnalities have not been ported)
For more info: http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/


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Guillaume Thomassin
Ecole Centrale Paris  Promo 2ooo
ETH Zurich  Departement Elektrotechnik