Re: [Mingw-users] unicode and WinMain compiling error

[Thomas S. <ste...@gm...>]

Hello Jon,

>>> [...]
>> Anyway. Is ther really _NO_ way to compile sourcecode, which is coded
>> with the _t* functions and the _T('') macro, etc.? I can't believe that.
>> I'm wondering if mingw can't compile such code...
>> Why? And why there are such implementations of the _t* functions in
>> mingw?
>> It should compile as unicode if defined, shouldn't it?

> Both mingw.org and mingw-w64 support the _t* names, take a look at
> "tchar.h" header.

But this doesn't make any sense. In noc case.
Why are these header implemented, if I CAN'T compile and link
a windows GUI application as a unicode application???

Can you or anybody explain me that crazy and mad thing?

> Now that you mention it, in mingw.org tchar.h, they have:
>
> #if 0  /* no  wide startup module */
> #define _tmain      wmain
> #define _tWinMain   wWinMain
> #define _tenviron   _wenviron
> #define __targv     __wargv
> #endif
>
> Even if you did change it to wWinMain, the code still can't properly
> link due to the missing startup code in the mingw.org crt. The other _t*
> functions like _tprintf should work as expected.

These _t* funcitons doesn't make any sense, if mingw gcc, can't compile
and link to get a full unicode progamm ???

I don't understand that. Please tell me why?
That is really mad and I'm verryt disappointed about that :-(

So it looks like I should recommend every new user to use
Visual C or any other compiler which is abel to compile
unicode programs...

Thomas