On Unix, we use a pthreads mutex, which can be allocated and
initialized in global memory.
On Windows, we use a CRITICAL_SECTION, together with a call to
InitializeCriticalSection() from the constructor of a global static
C++ object (thanks to Ralf Habacker for suggesting this approach).
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54972
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de>
