Thread::Queue on Windows 98

[Richard Trahan]

I can't get Thread::Queue to work on Windows 98, although Thread::new,
join, etc., seem to work ok. Specifically, the Queue example in Wall
doesn't dequeue anything. No error messages appear. Has anyone gotten
this to run on W98? Does it work on W2000?

 

[Sisyphus]

I can't get Thread::Queue to work on Windows 98, although Thread::new,
join, etc., seem to work ok. Specifically, the Queue example in Wall
doesn't dequeue anything. No error messages appear. Has anyone gotten
this to run on W98? Does it work on W2000?

Could you use the "threads" and "threads::shared" modules instead ? - as
is recommended by 'perldoc Thread'.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[Sisyphus]

Thank you for responding.

No, I can't. I did read about that, but I'm using ActivePerl, which does
not support "threads".

No - afaik, one thing that ActiveState perl *does* support is threads.
(I *think* I'm right on this - for one thing it's used for fork()
emulation - I'm no expert on threads, so apologies if I'm being
execeedingly dumb.)

Run:
perl -V:useithreads

That should report that useithreads=`define'.
And you should find that you have both the "threads" and
"threads::shared" modules, and that they load without any problem. From
what I've read they function fairly well on Windows.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[Richard Trahan]

Could you use the "threads" and "threads::shared" modules instead ? - as
is recommended by 'perldoc Thread'.

Thank you for responding.

No, I can't. I did read about that, but I'm using ActivePerl, which does
not support "threads".