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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.macros | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.win32 | 7 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.macros b/doc/README.macros index 6e381a61..96a41c76 100644 --- a/doc/README.macros +++ b/doc/README.macros @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ GC_DGUX386_THREADS Enables support for DB/UX on I386 threads. GC_WIN32_THREADS Enables support for Win32 threads. That makes sense for this Makefile only under Cygwin. -GC_WIN32_PTHREADS Enables support for Ming32 pthreads. This cannot be +GC_WIN32_PTHREADS Enables support for pthreads-win32. This cannot be enabled automatically by GC_THREADS, which would assume Win32 native threads. diff --git a/doc/README.win32 b/doc/README.win32 index 5c30d896..134681cf 100644 --- a/doc/README.win32 +++ b/doc/README.win32 @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ especially with the garbage collector. Any use is likely to provoke a crash in the GC, since it makes it impossible for the collector to correctly track threads. -To build the collector for Mingw32 Pthreads, use Makefile.direct and -explicitly set GC_WIN32_PTHREADS. Use -DPTW32_STATIC_LIB for the static -threads library. +To build the collector for MinGW pthreads-win32, +use Makefile.direct and explicitly set +GC_WIN32_PTHREADS (or pass --enable-threads=pthreads to configure). +Use -DPTW32_STATIC_LIB for the static threads library. |