From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-04-07T18:17:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading still broken in Win Ruby?

In article <20020406222954.701657AD@helium.ruby-lang.org>,
Lorien Dunn  <loriend@bigpond.com> wrote:
>Actually it is just a problem with the mswin32 version of ruby. When compiled 
>with mingw32 threads work just fine, and though I haven't tried it for a 
>while FXRuby threading stuff works fine as well. Some time ago, when I tried 
>to compile FXRuby with threading turned on with msvc I got a bunch of 
>undefined symbols (from the ruby lib) to do with threading.
>
>Lorien
>

It's good to hear that it works when compiled with mingw32, but the 
problem is that a while back it was decided that the mswin32 version of 
Ruby to be distributed would be the one compiled with MSVC so there will 
be problems for the vast majority of folks who download the version that 
is being distributed for Windows.  I guess what I'm worried about is that 
people interested in trying out Ruby for the first time who happen to be 
running Windows will download it and play with it for a bit, then try 
out threads and upon finding them broken, they'll decide that it's not 
worth their time to delve further.

If threading works under the mingw32 
version does that mean we should revisit that option?

Phil