Does anyone know if thrift can work with gcc std::thread on Windows? I have successfully build it and run the test on MSYS2 with gcc 6.3.0 with -DWITH_STDTHREADS=ON. Do the tests check for threading too?
All the best, Mario On 02.04.2017 17:07, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Dear All, > > in the past I've found the one or other recommendation on the web that > thrift should be built with boost threads instead of std::thread on > MSYS2 . One of these sources was the README-MSYS2.md. But I have a hard > time to find a solid statement saying "std::threads can *not* be used", > so its more a hunch than a fact. > > I was able to build thrift with std::thread enabled on MSYS2 (which is > currently using MinGW64 gcc 6.3 compiler). Can someone help me out, are > problems to be expected from this combination? Should I indeed prefer > boost threads? I'm mostly interested in a C++ thrift client, not a server. > > My application is already using gcc std::threads, and I'd like to avoid > the mix and match. Or is there no reason to be concerned of mixing and > matching threading with boost and std::thread? > > All the best, > > Mario Emmenlauer >
