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To: John Garrison <jeg AT visi DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Libraries not working 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jul 1999 18:03:07 EDT."
             <37827D1B DOT A4360E0E AT visi DOT net> 
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 17:23:48 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

John Garrison <jeg AT visi DOT net> writes:
> 
> Now if I could just find out how to make WinMain be declared without
> breaking compatibility with other platforms.  Can I just do somthing like
> the following?
> 
> WinMain(void)
> {
> main();
> }
> 

You shouldn't need to do anything at all. If this is a windows32 GUI
program, add -mwindows when linking the program; if this is a console
mode (the usual Unix kind), then the linker should pick up main from
one of the object files where main is defined.

If it is console mode, then is main() defined in one of the object
modules? 

  $ i586-mingw32-nm --print-file-name *.o | grep main

do you see a defined symbol for main (there is a ' T ' before the
symbol name if defined).

If main() is in an archive instead, try the following:
  
  $ i586-mingw32-gcc -o foo -Wl,-u,_main [rest of arguments]

and see if that helps.

Regards,
Mumit


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