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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:51:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, "'Kostadin Cholakov'" <pirinlion AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: Undifined reference to _WinMain AT 16 (Attn: FAQ maintainer)
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kostadin Cholakov
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:25 PM
> > To: cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

> > Subject: Undifined reference to _WinMain AT 16
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am using for a first time GCJ compiler (and I find
> > it strange) but it seems to work properly. I have my
> > first error message :). It is Undifined reference to
> > _WinMain AT 16. I checked the FAQ but the explanation
> > there doesn't help. In fact, it refers to GCC compiler
> > and the example is an Object C file. Anyway, I tried
> > by putting the -lm flag and it didn't work. I read all
> > stuff provided by man to see if there are some special
> > flags which I should put but I think there was nothing
> > which could help me. So, please, can somebody tell me
> > 2 simple commands in order to compile and then to run
> > a Java program using GCJ! Should I make some
> > additional changes in path or something else? Thanks!
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC91

This won't work with gcj.  You need to pass a "--main" flag, e.g.,

gcj --main=Hello Hello.java

Would it be possible to add this to the above FAQ entry?
	Igor
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