Re: gcc for building Perl on WinXP

Chris and/or Rob,

could you please try the following:

1/ take 
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/p5.14.2.1-RC/strawberry-perl-5.14.2.1-portable-32bit-beta-1.zip

2/ take 
http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/32_libs/5.14-extras/32bit_pthreads-2.9.0-bin_20111101.zip
(unzip into the same dir as 1/)

3/ try to build PDL with pthreads support

My quick test failed during PDL installation (but it was really a quick 
shot)

Any feedback welcome

--
kmx

On 3.11.2011 14:13, Chris Marshall wrote:
> We've tested the PDL pthread support with "POSIX Threads
> (pthreads) for Win32" at http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ .
> It is nice because it allows PDL computations to make use
> of multicore processors for calculations.  Always nice to see
> those factors of 2X, 4X, 6X, or more in speedup....
>
> --Chris
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Sisyphus<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "kmx"
>>      
>>> As for the future gcc-4.6.2 toolchain there is also an interesting
>>> question about including pthreads or winpthreads support as PDL is AFAIK
>>> somohow able to handle threads this way (not sure if this is valid for
>>> Win32)
>>>        
>> Yes, pthreads works with PDL on Win32.
>> There's a crash in one of PDL's pthread test scripts that needs to be sorted
>> out, but the basic functionality seems to be fine.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
>>      
>