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spThread 0.1.0 - 2002.01.11 - softpixel
http://prj.softpixel.com/spthread/
    spThread is protected by a bsd-style license
    see http://prj.softpixel.com/licenses/#bsd
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spThread is a crossplatform library designed to provide a single API to
developers who wish to use threads on win32 and unix platforms.
it has been developed and tested on windows 2000 and a number of linux
distributions.

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           Installation -- Unix
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   * place the source where you want it ( /usr/src or /usr/local/src is a
      good idea )
   * 'make'
   * 'make install'

that's all.  This will create the file spthread.h in /usr/local/include, and 
the library spthread-0.1.0.a in /usr/local/lib.  You may want to run 'ldconfig'
after installation, and will probably need to be logged in as root.


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          Installation -- Windows
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   * go to the vc directory, open spthread.dsw in msvc.
   * click build.

   * Getting things where they belong
      * copy the .h into 
<install drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include
      * copy the .lib into
<install drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib

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       Making programs use spThread
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Making programs is easy.  Simply 
   * #include <spthread.h> for Unix
or
   * #include  "[installed-dir]\spthread.h" for msvc.
      * if you copied the .h into the VC98\Include dir, 
        #include <spthread.h>  will work as well.

and finally, link spThread into the executable 
   * for unix: -lspthread for gcc
   * for mscv:
      * click project -> settings
      * click the link tab
      * add [installed-dir]\spthread.lib.   if you copied it to VC98\Lib,
        just adding spthread.lib should be fine.

See doc/API.txt for programming information.