mingw32-ocaml, missing symbols in libthreadsnat.a

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:47:06PM +1000, Paul Steckler wrote:
> I asked (and no one answered):
> 
> > Could it be that libthreadsnat.a was not built correctly in the Fedora 11 mingw32-ocaml package?
> 
> I looked into this issue myself.  The source for libthreadsnat.a (posix.c) assumes the target looks like
> Linux (or Sun), not Windows.  There is a MinGW pthreads library, which gets you some of the way there,
> but the source also assumes that Unix signals are available on the target.
> 
> My conclusion is that you can't get OCaml to use native Win32 threads by building with the MinGW ocaml
> cross-compiler.  Does anyone know any different?

I didn't try any multi-threaded programs.

This sounds like an issue for upstream caml-list.

Rich.

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