Posix Threads & Windows

[Matthew Gillen]

Anthony Gabrielson wrote:
> Hello,
> 	Quick question, I need to write a thread/sema app that uses POSIX  
> calls under windows.  I want to use the posix calls since within the next 
> few months this will be running under Linux ( I need to sort the Linux 
> drivers and data acq API out before I can even think about this app with 
> Linux).  So I would like to use SFU with Vis C and I just wanted to see if 
> anyone had any experience getting that going that could share with me.
> 
> 	I really have no desire to right now to learn the MS approach to 
> threads and IPC so this would be a great help to me.

Do your development in cygwin.  It provides a POSIX emulation layer.

--Matt