Posix Threads & Windows

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 3:09 pm, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 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.
This also allows you to use gcc so your code would be highly portable to 
Linux.
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