[SDL] XP doesn't support eventthread?

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Sat Apr 19 18:42:00 PDT 2003


> Hi.

> I am getting the following message out of a
> program trying to INIT_EVENTTHREAD at SDL_Init():

> "OS doesn't support event threading"

> I am running WinXP and compile using MSVC.

> Is there no support for the event-threading in XP?
> I have tried to compile&run programs using
> threads (using the SDL thread API) and it works
> fine.

> By the way: is there any documentation about
> INIT_EVENTTHREAD somewhere? I can't find it in the
> official SDL-documentation.

That's because it's unsupported and only works on Linux and BeOS.

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment




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