Re: [AL] When linking allegro to my shared library project, MSVC 2008 ask me to define a main().

[torhu <tor...@gm...>]

On 18.01.2011 11:08, Xpol Wan wrote:
> Finally, I found that the follow code in the alwin.h:
>
> #ifndef ALLEGRO_NO_MAGIC_MAIN
>>     #if defined _MSC_VER&&  !defined ALLEGRO_LIB_BUILD
>>        #pragma comment(linker,"/ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")
>>     #endif
>>  #endif
>>
>
> Accroding to the code, I defined ALLEGRO_NO_MAGIC_MAIN, and every thing is
> OK now.
> I suggest that the guard condition should be change to:
>
> *#if !defined(ALLEGRO_NO_MAGIC_MAIN)&&  !defined(_WINDLL)*
>>     #if defined _MSC_VER&&  !defined ALLEGRO_LIB_BUILD
>>        #pragma comment(linker,"/ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")
>>     #endif
>>  #endif
>>

There are other cases where this matters too, like when you want to use 
WinMain or wmain.  I think it would help if ALLEGRO_NO_MAGIC_MAIN was 
mentioned in the docs.