Re: Glib 2.32.x, Win32 and threading

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:45:25 +0200
"Martin Schlemmer" <Martin Schlemmer nwu ac za> wrote:
> Anyhow, I am now aware of the problem, but for sake of legacy code
> that might still use gdk_threads_init(), should I file a bug with the
> patch, or maybe to at least one to add a warning/abort in
> gdk_threads_init() for Win32 so that others who run into this problem
> will not be burnt?

I am not sure.  On the one hand, the gdk global lock is not supported
under Win32.  On the other hand, one would not expect your usage to
cause a deadlock.  I think that is probably your call.

Chris