Re: [Mingw-users] unicode and WinMain compiling error

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

> I have a application which compiles with mingw gcc as a non unicode
> version and all seems to be fine and working.

If WinMain is the only problem you have, you will be glad to know that
you can write a fully working "Unicode" application also with a
main(). Just fetch the command line using the wide character API and
parse it into a wide character string array. I.e.:

wchar_t **wargv = CommandLineToArgvW(GetCommandLineW(), &argc);

But in general the concept that one should build one's application as
separate "non-Unicode" and "Unicode" versions is quite obsolete. (If
you really have to support Win9x, then OK, but I feel sorry for you.)

IMHO, in a newly written (or actively maintained) application, there
is no need to keep using those extremely ugly historical conventions
from the <tchar.h> header. All that TCHAR and TEXT crap deserves to
die. Just use wchar_t strings, wide character literals (L"like this"),
wcs*() functions, and the W version of the Windows API explicitly,
etc, as appropriate, and your application will be a "Unicode" one.

--tml