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Satch:
First of all say HI!!!  :)

This is a question that makes me feel stupid since it is one of those asked trillion times and answered trillion times, but I failed to find that answer in the forums with the search tool above.

I'm using code::blocks with MSVC2003 toolkit and MSDK. To be sure all would work fine from start I  followed the MSVC toolkit integration tutorial to set up lib and include paths properly.

I tested the settings with a simple console project (yes, default compiler MSVC2003) and no problems compiling neither linking.
When I replaced the "main" identifier with "winmain" the problem shown up:

"error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartup"

it's clear that it is a missing library, but can't figure out which one since the MSDK libraries paths are all correct (checked like 10 times).

Any help would be welcome and I beg your pardon if there's already a post about this issue elsewhere in the forums.

Thx in advance :)

sethjackson:

--- Quote from: Satch on January 24, 2006, 02:52:51 am ---First of all say HI!!!  :)

This is a question that makes me feel stupid since it is one of those asked trillion times and answered trillion times, but I failed to find that answer in the forums with the search tool above.

I'm using code::blocks with MSVC2003 toolkit and MSDK. To be sure all would work fine from start I  followed the MSVC toolkit integration tutorial to set up lib and include paths properly.

I tested the settings with a simple console project (yes, default compiler MSVC2003) and no problems compiling neither linking.
When I replaced the "main" identifier with "winmain" the problem shown up:

"error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartup"

it's clear that it is a missing library, but can't figure out which one since the MSDK libraries paths are all correct (checked like 10 times).

Any help would be welcome and I beg your pardon if there's already a post about this issue elsewhere in the forums.

Thx in advance :)

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Ok what version of C::B RC2, SVN-HEAD? Could you post some code and the libs you are linking in? You did include windows.h right...  :lol:

EDIT:

There is a template for Windows GUI programs too.  :wink:

takeshimiya:
You need to change the "subsystem".

Menu Project->Properties->Targets tab.

In Select build target options->Type: change from "Console application" to "GUI application".

But anyways, I wonder why you want to use WinMain as the entry point. Are you programming with MFC?

sethjackson:

--- Quote from: Takeshi Miya on January 24, 2006, 03:29:09 am ---You need to change the "subsystem".

Menu Project->Properties->Targets tab.

In Select build target options->Type: change from "Console application" to "GUI application".

But anyways, I wonder why you want to use WinMain as the entry point. Are you programming with MFC?

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Uhh WinMain is for Win32 API programming....... Not MFC (AFAIK)......

takeshimiya:

--- Quote from: sethjackson on January 24, 2006, 03:31:20 am ---Uhh WinMain is for Win32 API programming....... Not MFC (AFAIK)......

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It is used, but internally, AFAIK.

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