[fpc-devel]ics kylix version : any progress?

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Tobias Hermann wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > Had you any progress compiling TWSocket-Component from ICS (Kylix Beta
> > Version) ? Surley with the FPC linux version.
> 
> The problem with the TWSocket implementation is that it uses threads,
> and FPC is not yet 100% ready for threads. The basic FPC TThread object
> seems  to work, but it is not clear whether this is enough to work with
> TWsocket, since the RTL is in no way thread-safe.
> 
> But we're working on it.

I suppose it is the problem, since the Win32 TWSocket also doesn't work
properly, probably also because of thread support.