最近在使用sdl做视频显示，因为需要显示文字，所以就找了sdl的拓展库,sdl_ttf来做文字显示。
这里说明一下：sdl_ttf不支持多线程，官方上面有说明，它不是多线程安全的。
所以当我最初使用sdl_ttf来做多线程显示文字的时候，就会出现崩溃的问题。
崩溃的地方老是出现在：FT_Load_Glyph这个函数。
然后我就发现，原来sdl_ttf不支持多线程，而sdl_ttf下的freetype它其实也是非多线程安全的，也只单线程使用。
同时在查找的过程中，我找到了几个很有用的帖子，这里贴出来给大家：
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1199571
其中有人在多线程中使用freetype出现崩溃，然后把其作为Bug反馈给了freetype开发团队，上面就是Bug的反馈原内容。
然后还有这个：https://github.com/behdad/ftthread
这里是一个多线程测试freetype的tools，它是基于linux环境的。
我把帖子的内容贴出来：
ftthread ======== This is a test tool to use FreeType2 in a multi-threaded environment. FreeType2 is not thread-safe, and the original author(s) of FreeType suggest that one FT_Library per thread should be used. Unfortunately this is too inflexible to be really useful. However, there are ways to use it safely in a multi-threaded environment with simple modifications to FreeType. I have now produced a complete patchset to that effect and tested it using this utility. The patchset is available here: https://github.com/behdad/freetype/commits/ftthread and I hope it to be integrated into upstream FreeType very soon. In the mean time, here's the new threadsafety model, which needs to be integrated into FreeType documentation. Note that cairo graphics library already uses FreeType in this way and as such the entire GNOME desktop has been relying on this model, to huge disappointment as seen in the following bug reports, each of which have many duplicates: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678397 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004315 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164941 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165471 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69034 Threadsafety model ================== - A FT_Face object can only be safely used from one thread at a time. - A FT_Library object can be used without modification from multiple threads at the same time. - FT_Face creation / destruction with the same FT_Library object can only be done from one thread at a time. Discussion ========== In this model, one can use a single FT_Library object across threads as long as a mutex lock is used around FT_New_Face / FT_Done_Face. Any calls to FT_Load_Glyph and similar API are safe and do not need the lock to be held as long as the same FT_Face is not used from multiple threads at the same time. Note that this goes almost all the way to making FreeType API useful from multiple threads. The only remaining bit is the unfortunately API that is FT_Library_SetLcdFilter (and to less extent FT_Library_SetLcdFilterWeights). I will try to work out a solution for replacing FT_Library_SetLcdFilter using new FT_LOAD_* values. There seem to be quite a few bits available in that space, so that work should happen soon.
文中指出，freetype是非多线程安全的，同时他对于使用多线程的环境下，提出了自己的使用安全模型，并给出了代码。
按照他的示例代码，我对sdl_ttf的源码进行修改，是sdl_ttf适应多线程。