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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:08, Fab Tillier wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:57 AM
> 
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:56, Fab Tillier wrote:
> > Submissions to the OFW project are supposed to be bound by the
> > contributor's agreement:
> > 
> > I can see this causing
> > problems for builds, as people would need to find/install the pthreads
> > library before OpenSM would build successfully.
> 
> Could install documentation for OpenSM on Windows minimize this as an
> issue ?
> 
> [ftillier] This isn't just an install issue - it's a build issue.
> Anyone that wants to build OpenSM will need to find/download/install the
> pthreads library so that the build will succeed.  If linking statically,
> the resulting executable will not require any special installation.
> It's only an install issue if you link dynamically to pitheads.

OK; then build and install. How big an issue is this ?

I thought DLLs were dynamically linked but I'm a Windows plebe. 

-- Hal

> -Fab