[x265] Another possiblity for WINXP support?

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Darkmoon <darkmoon at verizon.net> wrote:
> While searching on the the Kernel32.dll error message I was getting, I found
> this article:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2847960/procedure-entry-point-initializeconditionvariable-could-not-be-located-in-kernel
>
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>
> I am running producer consumer problem( using windows thread ). It compiling
> successfully but on running it showing following error
>
> The procedure entry point InitializeConditionVariable could not located in
> the dynamic library Kernel32.dll.
>
> can u tell what would be reason
>
> ..
>
> InitializeConditionVariable and the related condition-variable APIs are only
> available on Windows Vista onwards. You could use Boost.Thread[1] to provide
> a condition variable implementation which works on Windows XP. I wrote an
> article on my blog[2] about how to use that for a producer/consumer queue.
>
> [1]http://www.boost.org/libs/thread
> [2]http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/threading/implementing-a-thread-safe-queue-using-condition-variables.html
>
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>
> I read the Boost.Thread license agreement, and it is very liberal, almost no
> restrictions at all. Perhaps the API is similar enough to what you are
> working with in Windows Vista and onward that you can use it without having
> to rewrite substantial amounts of code? HTH,

There are already workarounds in place for condition variables, you
need to build x265 with the
WINXP_SUPPORT cmake flag enabled

-- 
Steve Borho