Re: [Jack-Devel] Problem using Jack2 with MinGW and pthreads

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:03:24AM +0000, Peter Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:52 +1000, Tim Mayberry wrote:
> > I've been working on porting an existing application to windows using
> > the MinGW compiler. The application uses both pthreads via
> > (http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32) and the jack API via jack2
> > 
> > The problem I'm having(I think) is that pthread_t is getting redefined
> > via jack/systemdeps.h
> > 
> > The relevant section:
> > 
> > #elif __MINGW32__   /* MINGW */
> >     #include <stdint.h>
> >     #include <sys/types.h>
> >     #ifndef pthread_t
> >         typedef HANDLE pthread_t;
> >     #endif
> > #else
> 
> #ifndef pthread_t seems bogus to me. pthread_t will be a type, not a
> preprocessor definition.
> 
> Does commenting out the typedef help?

on the long run jack api should not contain a reference to pthread_t
i suggest changing it to jack_native_thread_t or somthing.

this doesnt completely solve the problem. but it should get us almost
there.
jack_native_thread_t would be HANDLE on windows.
how to map a pthreads-win32 pthread_t to a HANDLE might be the problem
we need to solve afterwards. 
but this is an application specific problem then. and not jacks problem.

-- 
torben Hohn

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