Correction: apparently previous releases were not dependent on libpthread at all. I'm guessing this new dependency is because Rust's LLVM is now compiled in multi-threaded configuration?
Anyhow, my point still stands: a default fresh MinGW installation will have the wrong version of libpthread. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Vadim <vadi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like MinGW's "libpthread-2.dll" got renamed to > "pthreadGC2.dll"<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel/4249>at > some point. So Rust 0.7 won't work with a fresh MinGW installation > unless users downgrade libpthread to v2.8 (mingw-get upgrade > "libpthread=2.8.0-3"). > > However, previous Rust releases had used libpthread v2.9, so, perhaps, > this change wasn't intentional? > > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Vijay Korapaty > <rustdevl...@korapaty.com>wrote: > >> Ran the installer on Windows 7 (64-bit) and came across 2 problems so far. >> >> The first was when trying the 'rustc' command from cmd.exe, I got an >> error 'libpthread-2.dll is not found'. If tried in PowerShell, there is no >> output or error, just a new prompt. Following the 'Troubleshooting Windows >> environment setups' section here https://github.com/mozilla/** >> rust/wiki/Note-getting-**started-developing-Rust<https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust>, >> and dumping the dll into the Rust installation directory (C:\Program >> Files(x86)\Rust\bin) fixed that error. >> >> (I would note that I have no idea where that lzma command line program >> mentioned in the Notes page comes from. Tried >> http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html that, and that was a rabbit hole of >> confusion. It was much simpler to use the 7-zip GUI to extract the dll from >> the .tar.lzma package.) >> >> The second problem is with 'rusti', https://github.com/mozilla/** >> rust/issues/7499 <https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/7499> was >> happening for me. >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> Rust-dev@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/rust-dev<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev> >> > >
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