Use of pthread library in windows environment

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Is it possible to work with the pthread library normally in a windows environment? Or should it only be in linux?

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How do you say here, that I find a very correct statement for the clarification of this doubt:

Pthreads is part of POSIX and Windows is not a system POSIX.

Anyway there is only one implementation of pthread.h for Windows call pthreads-win32, but does not have all the original functions. Here can see compliance with the original library. You can use it with Mingw or TDM-GCC.

  • Nice to know there’s a compatibility library. Remembering that even when Windows implemented a POSIX API (up to NT 4), there were no pthreads in it.

  • Perhaps it would be nice to add the recommendation to use a library that abstracts threads in both systems. There are several projects that run on Windows and UNIX, so I imagine there should be a good number of thread abstractions to make this easier. Type: Tinycthread (https://tinycthread.github.io/).

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It is possible yes, just use wsl 2, which simulates a linux system inside linux. Another way, which also uses the former is through containers (Dockers). Visual Studio Code supports all these tools. There are videos on Youtube about all this!!!

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