Can we multi thread in the C++ sandbox?

Question

From a couple experiments I've discovered that the sandbox is a Windows 32 host that uses GCC 4.8 through Mingwin. It supports cxx11 but not std::thread nor posix threads.

Is there any way to do a MT app in C++ using Windows threads?

Answer 1

Thanks for the hint, a quick search on google got me a working example from stack overflow.

_beginthreadex is not found but CreateThread exists and seems to work fine at least in the example.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7739131/1946427
https://code.sololearn.com/cl2pYMK5Ib9W

Answer 2

Maybe there are limits in place for the amount of threads that can run at the same time. Anyway it's nice that you got it working but I was hoping for a STL implementation. I guess the sandbox vm is too limited for that. Kind of odd they'd choose Windows over Linux for this purpose.