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From: Kurt Franke <Kurt-Franke AT web DOT de>
Subject: Re: Using main() from a shared library in Cygwin 1.7
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:13:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Ferenc Kovacs <derefer <at> gmail.com> writes:

...
> I have an application, which links with a shared library (fairly common
> situation :)).  This shared library provides the main() function.  This
> approach works well on Linux/Solaris machines, but on Cygwin 1.7
> I get the following link error:
...

Hi Ferenc,

some years ago I had a problem with main function in a library under VMS
The linker just didn't search for it in a library.

To force it to search a reference in a non-library part of source did help.

I just added the following code in the main source file:

extern int main();
static int (*force_linker_search_for_main_in_library)() = main;

maybe something similar will help you

regards

kf






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