[fpc-devel] cthreads OR adding a first unit

[Florian Klaempfl]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

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> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>>Problem:
>>Some units require the cthreads unit, but only under linux and it must be
>>added as first unit to the main source.
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>>Questions:
>>Will the cthreads unit will be added as default someday under linux ?
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> No.
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>>Or will it become obsolete by some other unit/feature?
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> If someone implements native thread handling, then cthreads will be obsolete.
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>>Or will it stay this way: If you need threads under linux, you need to add
>>cthreads as first unit?
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> For the time being, yes.
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>>Is it possible to compile a unit A, so that the need for cthreads is
>>inherited to every unit using A? Some kind of extended -Fa flag with
>>inheritage? 
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> Not that I know of; you can include cthreads in the gtk interface; 
> normally this should then enable threads for all lazarus apps. 
> The fact that it is not first in the uses clause is risky, but 
> not too much.

It must not be first the unit but before classes and variants.