If I try to compile a program with
#include <pthread.h>
in it, I get the error:
pthread.h: No such file or directory
Is it possible to get this to compile in a Windows environment?
I am using Vista with the latest MinGW.
I do not want to use the Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5 as I will have to move this to a Unix environment.
pthread.h is a header for the Unix/Linux (POSIX) API for threads. A POSIX layer such as Cygwin would probably compile an app with #include <pthreads.h>.
The native Windows threading API is exposed via #include <windows.h> and it works slightly differently to Linux's threading.
Still, there's a replacement "glue" library maintained at http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ ; note that it has some slight incompatibilities with MinGW/VS (e.g. see here).
As @Ninefingers mentioned, pthreads are unix-only. Posix only, really.
That said, Microsoft does have a library that duplicates pthreads:
There are, as i recall, two distributions of the gnu toolchain for windows: mingw and cygwin.
I'd expect cygwin work - a lot of effort has been made to make that a "stadard" posix environment.
The mingw toolchain uses msvcrt.dll for its runtime and thus will probably expose msvcrt's "thread" api: _beginthread which is defined in <process.h>
