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:

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#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;
    }

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