tinycthread/tinycthread

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TinyCThread is a minimalist, portable C library implementing a subset of the C11 threads API (threads, mutexes, condition variables, once semantics). It has no external dependencies and can be dropped into a project as two files or used via CMake.

Use cases

• add multithreading to a C program portably
• use C11 threads API on compilers without C11 thread support
• write cross-platform threaded code for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• drop a small threading library into a project without dependencies
• port POSIX threads code to Windows

When to choose

• you need C11-style threading on platforms or compilers lacking native support
• you want a tiny, dependency-free library you can vendor into your build
• you target Windows, macOS, and Linux with one codebase

When to avoid

• your compiler already supports C11 <threads.h> natively
• you need advanced features like thread pools, priorities, or the full C11 threads API
• you need a library with active development and a formal license file

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform programming-languages windows cpp c c11-threads threading portable minimalist single-file-library mutex condition-variables linux macos

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