Re: [Mingw-users] C++ & SDL

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Andrew Fleenor <and...@sb...>:

>>
>> C:/Dev-Cpp/lib/libmingw32.a(main.o)(.text+0x106):main.c: undefined  
>> reference to `WinMain@16'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>
> Make sure your main function has the signature int main(int,  
> char**). I think I've gotten similar errors by declaring "int  
> main()". The problem is that SDL #defines "main" to SDL_main, then  
> calls it with the original arguments that it got from the real  
> main(). Since your "main" is not the real main, it doesn't get the  
> same flexibility as the real main in its arguments.
>

How is correcting main() going to provide a reference for WinMain()?   
Did you notice the -mwindows in the command?  That will require  
WinMain() and not main().

> I don't remember for sure if that's the error I got when I did this.  
> Google is great for looking up error messages.
>

It may benefit the list if the responder were to do so before  
responding.  The resolution to the problem is, don't provide -lmingw32  
on the command line.

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Earnie