From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2002-04-07T20:32:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading still broken in Win Ruby?

On 7 Apr 2002, at 18:17, Phil Tomson wrote:

> 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.

What exactly is broken? I'm using (simple) threading code with 
MSVC Ruby 1.6.6 and it's working for me.

Regards,
Pit