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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:13:00 -0400
To: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>, Mo DeJong <mdejong AT cygnus DOT com>
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem choosing exe entry point.
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At 7/6/01 01:25 AM (Friday), Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Mo DeJong wrote:
>
> > I think I have found a problem with the way Cygwin ld
> > picks the executable entry point when both WinMain() and main()
> > are available. I would think that passing in the -mwindows flag
> > (which gets passed to ld as --subsystem windows) would clear
> > things up and link with WinMain(). Instead, Cygwin ld is
> > choosing main().
>
>I would consider this a quality of implementation issue rather
>than a bug. Having both main and WinMain is rather ambiguous
>under most circumstances, and I'm not sure I'd qualify this as
>a bug.
>
>Mo, do you have any reason to have both, or do you have a project
>that defines both?

I had some similar plans, expressed on the list about a week ago, to create 
a "true" Windoze executable for rxvt by "wrapping" the existing code with a 
"WinMain" that would set up the environment and then call "__main" (?).

I haven't worked it all out yet.


>Regards,
>Mumit
>
>
>
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