Question

I’ve extracted the sources from the zip file at the website and put them in Code::Blocks’ ‘include’ folder, but even then it cannot compile the provided ‘hello.cpp’ example.

(For reference:)

#include <iostream>
#include <tinythread.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace tthread;


// This is the child thread function
void HelloThread(void * aArg)
{
  cout << "Hello world!" << endl;
}

// This is the main program (i.e. the main thread)
int main()
{
  // Start the child thread
  thread t(HelloThread, 0);

  // Wait for the thread to finish
  t.join();
}

And these are the following errors:

|41|undefined reference to `tthread::thread::thread(void (*)(void*), void*)'|
|44|undefined reference to `tthread::thread::join()'|
|44|undefined reference to `tthread::thread::~thread()'|
|44|undefined reference to `tthread::thread::~thread()'|

The same thing happens with wxDev-C++. Am I missing something; like, do I need to build the libraries or anything? If so, how?

Answer 1

From the readme.txt inside the archive:

Using TinyThread++

To use TinyThread++ in your own project, just add tinythread.cpp and
tinythread.h to your project. In your own code, do:

#include <tinythread.h>
using namespace tthread;

If you wish to use the fast_mutex class, inlude fast_mutex.h:

#include <fast_mutex.h>

Just including the header leads to unresolved symbols because the .cpp does not get compiled.