[Mingw-users] main of WinMain

[Marc K. <ma...@ke...>]

With all the debait about main and WinMain, I thought I'd throw this one =
out there.

If the following code is compiled for console, then main should be =
called first.
However, it the code is compiled for windows, then WinMain should be =
called first.

This is nothing to do with ANSI standards, it's just obviously the =
programmers intentions.

    #include <windows.h>
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    int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE , HINSTANCE , char* , int )
    {
        MessageBox(0, "WinMain!", "Message", MB_OK);
        return 0;
    }
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    int MyDogsRealyAChickenMain()
    {
        MessageBox(0, "MyDogsRealyAChickenMain!", "Message", MB_OK);
        return 0;
    }
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    int main()
    {
        MessageBox(0, "main!", "Message", MB_OK);
        WinMain(0, 0, 0, 0);
        MyDogsRealyAChickenMain();
        return 0;
    }

If you compile this with Borland, you get what you would expect.  But if =
you compile it with MinGW, main is always called first.

I'd be interested to know how VC++ handles this.