undefined reference to winmain@16

[tim tim]

I've been getting this error while trying to compile an SDL appilication. I do not think it is an SDL error, as I have read and followed two SDL tutorials to the letter. I have already done as much googling as I can (an hour and a half), read all the faqs, and searched the forums and my searches reveal nothing. I have set my Linker options to

-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL

without the -lmingw32, it gives "undefined reference to winmain@16" With it, it gives "undefined reference to SDL_main" It seems to me that I am linking against a library with that very name. If you can help me, I'd much appreciate it.

Here is my(very short) code:

include <iostream>

include <SDL\SDL.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
/ if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0)
{
cout<<"SDL: "<<SDL_GetError()<<endl;
exit(-1);
}
atexit(SDL_Quit);
/
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

You can see that at this point I've cut out everything: I'm just trying to link against SDL at this point.

Please help me.

[cpns]

Check the SDL headers. I seem to remember that there is some conditional compilation that affects the entry point implementation, you have to define the approproate macros to configure it. Do this by adding -D<macroname> compiler options to your project.

I think the idea is that main() (or WinMain()) is defined by the framework and SDL applications start at SDL_main() which you define.

All this from memory however!