Re: [Mingw-users] libmingw32.a(main.o)(.text+0x8e): undefined reference to `WinMain@16'

[Tim H. <tt...@on...>]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:07:16 +0800
"Luke Dunstan" <cod...@ho...> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Hentenaar" <tt...@on...>
> To: <min...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:39 AM
> Subject: [Mingw-users] libmingw32.a(main.o)(.text+0x8e): undefined reference
> to `WinMain@16'
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I was hoping someone could help me with a slight problem i've been
> having...
> >
> > I wrote a program that compiles fine under linux and cygwin (on Win98SE),
> but when i specify -mno-cygwin or try to compile it on my local mingw build,
> I get the following:
> >
> > [root@localhost arnold]#
> g++ -O2 -g -I/usr/include/win32 -I/usr/cross-tools/include/g++-3 -L/usr/cros
> s-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/lib -L/usr/lib/mingw32 -L. -L/usr/cross-tools/lib/g
> cc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.2 -L/usr/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/lib -o
> arnold-bin.exe arnold.cpp -lSDL -lSDL_mixer
> >
> > /usr/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/lib/libmingw32.a(main.o)(.text+0x8e):
> undefined reference to `WinMain@16'
> >
> 
> If you look in the 'sdl-config' script you will see that you need to specify
> '-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL -mwindows ...' so that the WinMain() function can
> be found in the libSDLmain.a library. SDL headers contain '#define main
> SDL_main' so your 'main' function isn't really called 'main'. BTW, linking
> libmingw32.a more than once does not cause problems.
> 
> > --
> > Tim Hentenaar
> >
> > Systems Administrator / Programmer
> > Xodian Network
> > http://xodian.net
> >
> 
> Luke Dunstan
> 

Thanks for the info. it worked.


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