Does Android support thread?

android, android-ndk, gcc, multithreading

Solution

As far as I could see in the docs you do not need to use "-pthread". Checkout following: http://mobilepearls.com/labs/native-android-api/#pthreads

Info from NDK offical docs states (android-ndk-r8\docs\system\libc\OVERVIEW.html):

PThread implementation:
   Bionic's C library comes with its own pthread implementation bundled in.
   This is different from other historical C libraries which:
    - place it in an external library (-lpthread)
    - play linker tricks with weak symbols at dynamic link time

So keep in mind that Bionic includes directly pthread as opposed to standard way you are used to (with -lpthread).

Problem

Does Android support pthreads? And why when i use -pthread option i see the linker error: i686-android-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread ``` #include <pthread.h> #include <cxxabi.h> extern "C" int printf (const char *, ...); int main() { try { pthread_exit (0); } catch (abi::__forced_unwind &) { printf ("caught forced unwind\n"); throw; } catch (...) { printf ("caught ...\n"); return 1; } } ```

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