The glfw documentation on Thread safety says the following: Most GLFW functions must only be called from the main thread (the thread that calls main), but some may be called from any thread once the library has been initialized. Before initialization the whole library is thread-unsafe. Is there …

Question regarding multithreading

dougbinks January 31, 2025, 2:57pm 2

This response Multithreading GLFW? - #5 by elmindreda covers the reasons behind why some GLFW functions need to be called from the main thread.

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