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Yesterday, I made another attempt to getting pthread.h working on windows with win32-pthreads and today my multithreaded prime number finder is working.
However, there is one thing that I do not understand. In order to get it to work, I had to compile pthreadVC2.dll and then move it to system32, even though Visual Studio has access to the source files. Exactly what does a dll file do and why could Visual Studio 2008 Professional not inline the necessary code into the executable, so that it would not need the dll file?
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However, there is one thing that I do not understand. In order to get it to work, I had to compile pthreadVC2.dll and then move it to system32, even though Visual Studio has access to the source files. Exactly what does a dll file do and why could Visual Studio 2008 Professional not inline the necessary code into the executable, so that it would not need the dll file?
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