Basic Question on Building Multi-Threaded 'C' Apps with gcc

[Andrew Haley]

Frank Tufano writes:

 > I am developing a multi-threaded application (written in 'C') on
 > Linux on the AMD x86-64 platform.  I would like to know what
 > compile and link options I should be specifying to ensure that the
 > application builds properly.  (We are using the posix thread
 > model).  The only thread related option info I can find in the AMD
 > x86-64 Options section of the online manual is the -mthreads
 > option, which is for "thread-safe exception handling on `Mingw32'",
 > which is not applicable.  Below is my gcc version info and some
 > system info.

The only specific option you will need is `-pthread'.  This should do
everything that's needed to compile and link correctly in a
multi-threaded environment.

Andrew.

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