On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:40 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <h5pk7i$bn...@ger.gmane.org>, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >I'm willing to build an app that starts 3 threads, especially (soap > > client, server from libcsoap and terminal), so I couldn't manage to do > > the job in C++, because they it lacks native threading support. PThread > > lib is C. > > I've always been able to use the pthread library from C++ as well. You do > need to make sure that your thread functions are callable from C, but that > it rarely a problem. > One way to do it by the way if you want them encapsulated inside a class is to use static member functions (they are actually just standard function with a limited scope). Then you don't need to define them as friend, you do need to pass a pointer to the relevant class though. > >I also couldn't find a user-list for libcsoap, but the question is a > > general one - HOW THE H**L ARE YOU WRITING threaded apps in C++. It > > shouldn't be that hard - or is it? > > 1. POSIX/SUSv2 pthreads is a absolutely has to work with minimal > dependencies on multiple UNIX-alike platforms. > > 2. Qt4 Threads for most things. Qt4 Threads are arguably more portable than > pthreads, and with modular Qt4, you don't have to pull in X11 libraries if > you don't need them. > > 3. I hear boost has a threading library. I've never used boost for > anything, but if I couldn't use Qt4 or pthreads, I'd consider it. > > 4. C++1x should have native thread primitives and should be fairly close to > complete. Depending on how good your libstdc++/gcc support the soon-to-be > standard interface you could write to this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
