Zitat von Henry Vermaak <henry.verm...@gmail.com>:
2009/8/27 Graeme Geldenhuys <grae...@opensoft.homeip.net>:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Why is threading enabled by default under Windows and not under other
platforms?
Because it creates a dependency on the C library, which
is not always wanted. For Lazarus programs, the dependency exists
anyway, so it does not make a lot of sense to have the define.
But surely that c library is available on all unix-type systems? To why
is that dependency a bad thing?
The linux threading support is part of glibc. See `man pthreads`.
That's why Mattias says that including it by default in lazarus is
o.k., since all the widgetsets depend on libc, anyway.
Not me, but Michael said that.
I would say, that using cthreads under Linux in an LCL app is ok.
I didn't test yet a LCL app under OS X, *BSD or Sparc, so don't know
if cthreads has a performance penalty there.
Threading on Windows works with Windows API functions.
Mattias
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