The simplest threaded application skeleton possible.

OK, ive read alot of posts lately from people who are having problems getting a threaded application up and running, so I figured Id write a short tutorial about windows threads (mit source code chocolate chunks even).

The following will start a single thread.

Code:

#include <windows.h>
 
int main(){
     HANDLE hThread;
     DWORD ThreadId;
     DWORD SomeData;
 
     hThread = CreateThread(NULL , 0 , &ThreadFunc , &SomeData , 0 , &ThreadId);
 
     WaitForSingleObject(hThread , INFINITE);
 
     return 0;
     }
 
DWORD WINAPI ThreadFunc(LPVOID lParam){
     DWORD TheData;
    
     TheData = (DWORD)*lParam;
     // your code goes here
 
     return 0;
     }

nothing fancy, it just creates the thread and waits for it to terminate.