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I have a codebase that makes extensive use of pthread.h. On a windows visual studio project, this obviously doesn't work since pthreads is a unix utility.
I know there exists pthread-win32 or something of the sort, but is there a way to have a codebase use this, without replacing all of the pthread code?
edit: I'd prefer to not have to go through and replace all the pthread calls. This is my question
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Windows does not support the pthreads standard natively, therefore the Pthreads4w project seeks to provide a portable and open-source wrapper implementation. It can also be used to port Unix software (which uses pthreads) with little or no modification to the Windows platform.
If the pthread. h file still can't be found by VS, you can try to include it manually, for example right-click your project > Properties… > Configuration Properties > VC++ Directories > Reference Directories > Edit > add a new line(path) which points to the folder that includes the pthread.
The MinGW has already support POSIX threads, In the "MinGW Installation Manager", we can install the pthreads dev package and pthreads lib.
Try http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/. While I've never used that particular library, I've had luck using some windows ports/abstraction layers of POSIX APIs.
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