[Development] Choosing a new MinGW for Qt 5

[Tr3wory]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net> wrote:
> What is the problem with the current thread support in mingw?

When you compile the gcc, you can choose which thread model do you
want to use: win32 or pthread.
In case of pthread the gcc will use the winpthreads package for
threading, and the new c++11 threading facilities will work.
In case of win32 it will use the native threading functions but it is
not fully implemented yet, so the std::thread, std::future, etc. won't
work. As far as I know the win32 is the default, and used by MinGW and
TDM-mingw.

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