Re: Compiling a GTK application on windows

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:57 AM, richard boaz <ivor boaz gmail com> wrote:
> hi lothar,
> really, you should know the subject deeper before making absolute
> statements, for otherwise you run the risk of being wrong and just looking
> silly.
> multi-threading is primitive with GTK?  are you crazy?  if you refer to
> drawing with Pango, then yes, this must be done in the main thread (when
> using X11 backend), but locking all of GTK?

you might not be aware that the basic threading model underlying the
windows GUI API is very different than the one on X11.

windows APIs tend to assume multithreadedness, which results in
details like "only the thread that created a window may process events
for it". they have implicit locks all over the place to make sure that
multithreaded stuff works with not much effort on the part of the
programmer (who can still mess it up quite easily).

X11 APIs tend to assume single threadedness, don't care what thread
does what and have no implicit locks anywhere, meaning that the
application must take care to do any necessary locking and
synchronization itself.

GTK does try to hide these very fundamental differences, and does a
prettyreasonable though not perfect job of it.

--p