Subj : Re: creating library to be used in threaded and nonthreaded apps
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Friesen
Date : Thu Apr 28 2005 10:15 pm

Ian wrote:

> If your library is thread safe and doesn't use any thread calls, why 
> would the user require libpthread?

I was under the impression that in order to build my library such that 
it is suitable for use in threaded apps, I needed to build with 
"-pthread".  This ends up creating a dependency on pthreads even if I 
don't use any thread calls.

Can I get away with building the library without any special flags and 
link it into a threaded app?  I thought there was stuff like "errno" 
that got handled differently based on compiler flags (or is that not 
applicable anymore?)

Chris

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