[Mingw-users] Re: Simple Windows program doesn't work

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Please use the list for these reports.

I pasted your example into a WinHello.c and compile it successfully with 
`gcc -c WinHello.c'.

However,

Bob wrote:
> I have the lastest MingW and was going through the simple 
> excercises on your site. The following doesn't work:
> 
> #include <windows.h>
> 
>    int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, 
>                         HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, 
>                         PSTR szCmdLine, 
>                         int iCmdShow) 
>    {
>       MessageBox (NULL, "Hello", "Hello Demo", MB_OK);
>       return (0);
>    }
> 
> I get:
> 
> C:\MinGW\temp>gcc -c hello1.c
> hello1.c:1:2: invalid preprocessing directive #inlcude

This error should be the clue that hello1.c doesn't contain the code you 
posted above.

Earnie.