Hi,

I'm trying to compile a simple program that uses pthreads, on AIX using
GCC, and get pthread-related errors. AIX gurus, please help.

g++ -pthread -c QueueReader.cpp

In file included from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/bits/gthr-posix.h:37,
from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/bits/gthr-default.h:33,
from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/bits/gthr.h:98,
from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/bits/c++io.h:37,
from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/bits/fpos.h:44,
from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/bits/char_traits.h:46,
from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/c++/string:47,
from QueueAddress.h:11,
from Message.h:11,
from QueueReader.h:11,
from QueueReader.cpp:8:
/usr/include/pthread.h:652: error: `pthread_spinlock_t' was not
declared in
this scope
/usr/include/pthread.h:652: error: parse error before `,' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:655: error: `pthread_spinlock_t' was not
declared in
this scope
/usr/include/pthread.h:655: error: parse error before `)' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:658: error: `pthread_spinlock_t' was not
declared in
this scope

.... and so on - about 10 or 11 complains.

I tried adding -D_POSIX_SOURCE and/or -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600, no visible
effect.

AIX 5.3. GCC info:

Reading specs from
/opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/bin/as
--with-ld=/usr/bin/ld --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++
--prefix=/opt/freeware --enable-threads
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --host=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
Thread model: aix
gcc version 3.3.2

The program compiles fine with xlC, without any additional options.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Bogdan

I've never gotten past this one on 5.2 when I was trying to compile
bacula client and server binaries, but this is mostly to the fact I'm
not really a programmer in any way.

But as far as I understood and remember it, You don't want to use
-pthread but some other thread library. It's been too long ago, look if
there is something like an
-aixthread option.