[Lazarus] TRTLCriticalSection

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:46:43 +0100
Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 25.02.2014 12:14, schrieb Antonio Fortuny:
> >
> > Le 25/02/2014 12:04, Sven Barth a écrit :
> >> Am 25.02.2014 11:22, schrieb Antonio Fortuny:
> >>> Some help would be appreciated.
> >> The function for initializing a TRTLCriticalSection is 
> >> InitCriticalSection, not InitializeCriticalSection. If you wouldn't 
> >> use the Windows unit you'd have seen this error on Windows as well.
> > The windows unit is used in the Win32 box (look at the conditional 
> > uses clause)
> Yes, nevertheless you would get the same error as on Linux if you would 
> *not* use the Windows unit on Win32. Because on Windows 
> TRTLCriticalSection is the same as the Windows CRITICAL_SECTION thus 
> InitializeCriticalSection will happily take an TRTLCriticalSection as 
> argument. However on Linux TRTLCriticalSection is defined differently. 
> That Lazarus additionally declared a different TCriticalSection and 
> InitializeCriticalSection does not help of course... :/

This uses the widgetsets critical sections.

I personally am satisfied with the RTL one.

Mattias