[fpc-devel] Threads in Android

[Jeppe Græsdal Johansen]

Den 17-08-2014 20:03, Sergio Flores skrev:
> I'm trying to use threads in Android, but it seems they are not 
> working yet in FPC?
>
> I tried two approachs, using FPC TThread and using pthreads, none 
> would work.
>
> Using TThread requires including cthreads unit right?
> But including this unit makes the app imediately close at startup, 
> silently, with nothing in the log except a message saying the process 
> died.
>
> Not including cthreads makes the app thrown an exception when creating 
> a new thread, as expected. ("cannot create semaphore" or something 
> like that).
>
> I tried to use pthreads directly instead. However allocating any 
> memory inside the new thread crashes the app imediately (The stack 
> shows that the crash was in the cmem unit).
> I guess some setup code has to called at the thread startup to allow 
> the mem manager to work correctly?
That is correct.
> I'm using FPC 2.6.1 for Android compilation, maybe this was fixed in 
> later versions?
I'm not sure but you should probably try a newer version, maybe build 
from trunk. 2.6.1 is old as far as I remember.