X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: g++ linker problem with libcygwin.a Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:28:37 -0500 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p9MNT8Ij020997 On 10/22/2011 5:48 PM, Philipp Kraus wrote: > I have checked each library (*.dll, *.a, *.dll.a) but no library file as > got a reference to the _WinMain > and I use the -mconsole linker flag. I don't understand why the linker > creates the error on some > codes and on other code there is no error. Linker options are the same Sorry I missed the obvious, from your first message the library in question is libcygwin.a : $ nm /usr/lib/libcygwin.a | grep WinMain U _WinMain@16 I'm not sure why this static library is pulled. I also don't know what it is, cygwin1.dll doesn't have the reference. -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple