Threading in C, cross platform

Question

I am dealing with an existing project (in C) that is currently running on a single thread, and we would like to run on multiple platforms AND have multiple threads. Hopefully, t

Answer 1

From my experience, multi threading in C for windows is heavily tied to Win32 APIs. Other languages like C# and JAVA supported by a framework also tie into these core libraries while offering their thread classes.

However, I did find an openthreads API platform on sourceforge which might help you:

http://openthreads.sourceforge.net/

The API is modeled with respect to the Java and POSIX thread standard,

I have not tried this myself as I currently do not have a need to support multiple platforms on my C/C++ projects.