Re: [Mingw-users] How to build thread-safe postgresql 8.x on

[Matt England <mengland(at)mengland(dot)net>]

Hi Merrill et al,

At 3/6/2006 10:25 AM, Merrill Cornish wrote:
> Are you using C++?  If so, checkout the Boost threads library 
> (www.boost.org).  Boost's goal is portability across compilers and 
> OSes.  In the case of threads, it will use whatever threads library, 
> including pthreads, are on the local system.

Thanks for the tip.  Yes, my project is C++ based, and we use Boost 
extensively (and not just for threads).  We have begun to use Boost threads 
as an implementation of our internal process-thread "wrapper" (we were 
previously only using ACE <http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html>).

However, I don't see how our usage of Boost in my project's code is going 
to get around the postgresql-8.1.3 build problems under mingw as per my 
original email.  Maybe I'm missing something?

-Matt