[Ecls-list] Threads under Windows

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

Dear all,

Michael Goffioul has contributed a port of the multithreading subsystem 
from ECL to Microsoft Windows.

The port is based totally on Windows native threads and thus requires no 
special libraries. I have changed his original port so that it not only 
compiles under Visual C++, but also with Mingw32, and in the process I 
also ported the support for Windows Sockets to Mingw32.

Both elements, multithreading and sockets support for Mingw32 are 
largerly untested outside some stupid examples as the one I have 
previously posted to the list.

Thanks again, Michael!

Regards,

Juanjo