I'm creating cross platform software in Visual Studio 2012 express on Windows. For obvious reasons I can't use .NET's System::Threading::Thread. I was hoping I could use the new threading features of C11 (threads.h, not pthread.h), while using VS2012 since the I created a abstract framework based on .NET forms. I'm starting to believe that it's impossible for Windows. Does someone have an idea. I'll only use C++ libraries (boost and std) if those are my only options.
Is there someone who knows what to do?
Visual Studio 2012 doesn't support C11's threading (Microsoft has stated repeatedly that it has little interest in keeping current with C, preferring to focus on C++), but it does support C++11's std::thread and related facilities. If you're writing C++, you should arguably be using them anyways instead of C's threading libraries.