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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Christoph Egger
  • Date: 2011-02-19 12:19:56 UTC
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Most of the atomic_ops functionality is available under Win32 with
 
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the Microsoft tools, but the build process currently is considerably more
 
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primitive than on Linux/Unix platforms.
 
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To build:
 
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1) Go to the src directory in the distribution.
 
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2) Make sure the Microsoft command-line tools (e.g. nmake) are available.
 
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3) Run "nmake -f Makefile.msft".  This should run some tests, which
 
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may print warnings about the types of the "Interlocked" functions.
 
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I haven't been able to make all versions of VC++ happy.  If you know
 
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how to, please send a patch.
 
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4) To compile applications, you will need to retain or copy the following
 
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pieces from the resulting src directory contents:
 
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        "atomic_ops.h" - Header file defining low-level primitives.  This
 
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                         includes files from:
 
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        "atomic_ops"- Subdirectory containing implementation header files.
 
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        "atomic_ops_stack.h" - Header file describing almost lock-free stack.
 
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        "atomic_ops_malloc.h" - Header file describing almost lock-free malloc.
 
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        "libatomic_ops_gpl.lib" - Library containing implementation of the
 
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                                  above two.  The atomic_ops.h implementation
 
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                                  is entirely in the header files in Win32.
 
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Most clients of atomic_ops.h will need to define AO_ASSUME_WINDOWS98 before
 
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including it.  Compare_and_swap is otherwise not available.
 
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Note that the library is covered by the GNU General Public License, while
 
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the top 2 of these pieces allow use in proprietary code.