Re: Glib 2.32.x, Win32 and threading

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 07:29:18 -0400
Earnie Boyd <earnie users sourceforge net> wrote:
[snip]
> It may depend on which compiler, the compiler version and whose
> distribution of that compiler is being used.  Are you using MSVC to
> build or are you using GCC?  If the later it would help to know which
> distribution?

I really don't think there is much point in spending significant time on
this.  The overarching point is that the OP's code is not supported in
win32. It could be said the fact that it deadlocks early on is a
feature rather than a bug, as it brings to the early attention of the
coder that he/she has got it wrong (although the proximate cause is
almost certainly the threading backend changes in glib-2.32).

What might be beneficial is for a documentation bug to be posted with
respect to the GTK+ FAQ, which does not adequately make the point that
the advertised code on which the OP relied is for the X11 backend only.
It is not just that it won't work in win32: it won't work in wayland,
broadway or quartz either.

Chris