Re: [Libusb-devel] pthreads on 64bit Windows

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

>> Francesco wrote:
>> 2010/1/26 Michael Plante <mic...@gm...>:
>> > Francesco wrote:
>> >>> I wonder if we could have also a "sources" file for building
>> >>> pthread-win32...
>>
>> > but there is a Makefile, and the
>> > DDK/WDK comes with nmake.exe.  Try opening a build environment,
navigating
>> > to your pthread source directory, and typing nmake.  You'll need to
choose
>> > the options there carefully.
>>
>> hmmm, the problem is that I get many errors - I fixed some related to
>> wrong includes etc but I don't really have the time to look into the
>> other ones, even if they are trivial... could anyone who has the 64bit
>> build of pthread-win32 upload it somewhere or send it to me :) ?
>> Thanks in advance!!

Ok, I did mine with vc6's nmake, but I didn't try it with the DDK.  I
figured it'd be worth a try, but it doesn't matter now.


>> I'm mostly worried about the fact that 64bit builds seem just
>> "unsupported":
http://sourceware.org/ml/pthreads-win32/2009/msg00032.html.

It seems that, like me, the maintainer doesn't have a 64-bit OS to test on.
I suspect this won't be "eternally-unsupported".  Bloatware will eventually
be enough reason for people who otherwise wouldn't need/want it to switch.
:-|


>> many more people would be willing to test the windows backend and
>> contribute patches to it if only it was a bit easier to get it running

Do mingw or cygwin build it?  I mean, Pete's file solves this problem, but
how are you going to build a 64-bit app to use libusb if your only working
compiler is 32-bit?  Or do you just want to run lsusb and xusb prebuilt
binaries?

Michael