Re: [Mingw-users] Undefined Reference to WinMain@16 Problem

[Salman K. <sal...@ya...>]

Yes I did.

I gave up on MingW.  I got my code to compile and
link, but now I cannot debug anything!! 

In my library I have relative paths to other source
files in different directories.  (I compile files from
different directories into a library giving gcc
relative paths on the command line via makefiles.)

Then I linked some other code with the library to
create an executable (WinMain in the library gets
renamed according to the kludge that I described
earlier).

Now when gdb starts up, I can set a breakpoint in the
code within the library, but when that breakpoint is
hit, gdb cannot load the source file and gives some
error such as:

../../source/../bin/source.c not found

I ended up switching over the cygwin totally.  version
2.95.3 of gcc cygwin does not suffer from this
problem.  I think MingW puts some path information
into the executable that gdb cannot decode properly.

Also the lack of a GUI debugger is another
disappointing aspect.

The reason I tried so hard to get MingW to work was
that I want to use the ACE toolkit from
www.cs.wusltl.edu/~schmidt.  The toolkit works with
MingW but not Cygwin (at least thats what I know). 
But looks like I may  have to switch over to MSVC to
avoid all that trouble.  I can debug with Cygwin, but
cannot compile ACE....I can compile ACE with MingW but
cannot debug.



The entire reason that I wanted to use GNU tools was
that I needed access to the debug information put into
the executable by the compiler---something that
Microsoft did not offer in the past and never released
their debug format to public.  But now they have
(using the DIA SDK with Visual Studio .NET).  So I
cannot push for GNU tools in my company anymore :-(





Salman



--- John Brown <joh...@ho...> wrote:
> It should not matter where the WinMain is. Did you
> define your WinMain 
> function as:
> 
> int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, ..., int
> nShowCmd ) ?
> 


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