Re: Glib mutex doesn't work on Windows

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:17:51 -0700
Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte gmail com> wrote:
[snip] 
> I had this problem developing a GTK application on OpenBSD, it seems
> that GMutex's are not guaranteed to be recursive or non-recursive.
>
> I altered my code to work with GConditionals and worked fine. Perhaps,
> that will work for you as well.
>
> http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2009/01/gnome-mplayer-094-will-work-with-bsds.html
>
> Kevin

This is irrelevant, as the OP's code example does not do recursive
locking.

It is highly unlikely that glib mutexes do not work on windows, and
that the OP is the first person to notice this.  It is much more likely
that his code is defective.  One suspicious feature is that his test
case for GMutex starts a thread using the windows API rather than glib's
API. That is not of itself an error, but it invites the question
whether, for example, he has called g_thread_init().

To the OP: you need to provide a complete compilable test case,
including your code in main(), to demonstrate the problem.  You should
be able to do that in no more than 20 lines of code with something as
simple as this.

Chris