[openib-general] win related [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] opensm: sigusr1: syslog() fixes]

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: win related [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] opensm: sigusr1: syslog() fixes]
> 
> On 07:00 Thu 18 Jan     , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > What about pure opensource - http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/? It
> > > is licensed under LGPL, I see on the net many positive reports about
> > > stability and usability.
> > 
> > I used it to do a windows port of linux complib at some point and opensm
> > seemed to work fine with it. What it was lacking at that point was
> > support for 64 bit applications, and for some reason (which is
> > still unclear to me) there was a strong desire to run opensm in 64 bit mode.
> > Seems to have been fixed now, BTW.
> 
> So this seems to be good option for OpenSM on Windows. Right?

No idea. Distributing a copy of the pthread DLL with opensm does not
look like a problem. But is it worth it?


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