[Mingw-users] [4.4.0] gcc/pthreads packaging bug

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

The contents of pthreads-w32-2.8.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz seem incomplete
(and, perhaps, in the wrong directory):

$ tar tzf pthreads-w32-2.8.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz

mingw32/include/pthread.h
mingw32/include/sched.h
mingw32/include/semaphore.h
mingw32/lib/libpthread.a

So...where is the actual DLL?  When I compiled an OPENMP program [*] I
first got the 0xc0000005 popup (which means "DLL not found").  So, after
downloading the pthreadGC2.dll from
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/lib/ and installing
it into /mingw/bin -- AND making sure that it was marked executable! --
my program started working.  So that's good.

But...

It seems to me that the file currently called
"pthreads-w32-2.8.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz" really should be named
"pthreads-w32-2.8.0-mingw32-dev.tar.gz", and that there ought to be a
REAL pthreads-w32-2.8.0-mingw32-dll.tar.gz file containing
   bin/pthreadGC2.dll

[*] I *think* these paths ought to be
	include/pthread.h
	include/sched.h
	include/semaphore.h
	lib/libpthread.a
(or, if you want them sequestered in the compiler's private area)
	lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/pthread.h
	lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/sched.h
	lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/include/semaphore.h
	lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/libpthread.a
but I'm not really sure that's what you want).

--
Chuck