I'm new to porting Unix apps. I'm trying to get JThreads (www.ooc.com) to build on MacOS PB. Its trying to determine if pthread supports exists using the line

nm `gcc -print-libgcc-file-name` | grep pthread >/dev/null

This resolves to doing an nm on libgcc.a, which I can't find on the system. So a couple questions:

1) are pthreads truly supported on X?

2) is there a standard set of things that need to be done to get a unix program to compile on X?

3) where is libgcc.a?

Thanks for any help,
Brett

A good idea is to use configure, which reveals that pthread indeed is supported in MacOS X. (Some macro file for configure had to be copied from Darwin first to get configure to work.)
Hope this helps...

[bashyal]

Hi,

pthreads are supported, but a few are still not completed. check out the darwin bug list. I think I saw a few calls are missing like pthread_kill().

Got the same problems. The libs aren´t there. i guess it has to do with not having the Developer Tools and only having the compileer out of the Darwin pack.

- Tom