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

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Tzachi, Yossi, please join the thread.
What do you think about distributing a copy of the pthread DLL 
with opensm?

-- Yevgeny.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: win related [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] opensm: sigusr1: syslog() fixes]
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:20:32 +0200
From: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>
To: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
CC: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il>,        OPENIB <openib-general at openib.org>
References: <20070118194403.GA23783 at sashak.voltaire.com> <20070118215023.GP9890 at mellanox.co.il>

On 23:50 Thu 18 Jan     , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 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?

Sure, it makes windows porting much more transparent and let us to
use standard *nix stuff w/out #ifndef WIN32. Other (generic) benefit
is that posix is more standard and powerful than wrappers like complib.

Sasha