From: hop AT elwood DOT pionet DOT net (Justin Hopkins)
Subject: Re: Linking for GUI's
10 Jul 1997 20:26:53 -0700
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At 10:32 PM 7/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all, I have a very simple question that I can't seem to find on the
>archives or the FAQ.  I am trying to learn win32 programming with the
>Nuts and Bolts Book by Schildt.  Whenever I try to build the first
>example it compiles fine, but the linker cannot resolve any of the Win32
>Api functions.  The faq only says the most common functions are linked
>and you may need to link other libraries.  What libraries should I add
>to the gcc line to build GUI apps (I have successfully compiled several
>simple standard C and C++ programs with mains but no WinMain into
>console apps).
>                                                                    Herb

Try linking with libuser32.a, and/or libgdi32.a. So your command line 
invocation might be something like this:

	gcc -o mygui.exe mygui.c -luser32 -lgdi32

Justin Hopkins

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