Re: linker error

From:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:55:46 -0400

Message-ID:

<f82j21$lmi$1@news.datemas.de>

kath.neumann@web.de wrote:

I just started to get a grip on C++ and and went through the tutorial.
However, not even the standard "hello world" exercise works out :( I
do get a linker error "[Linker Error] Unresolved external 'WinMain'
referenced from C:\PROGRAM FILES\BORLAND\CBUILDER5\LIB\C0W32.OBJ"

my code (Borland C++ builder 5) is as follows:

#include <condefs.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>
#pragma hdrstop

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
cout << endl << "press any key to continue...";
getch();
return 0;
}

Any idea?

Unfortunately, yes. You're building this as a Windows application.
If so, then your application doesn't start in 'main', it has to start
in 'WinMain', which you don't have and that's what the linker is
complaining about. MS Windows programming is not the same as just
plain programming. That's why you probably want to set aside the
"Windows" side of things for now and switch to creating what is known
as "Console Applications". See appropriate settings described in the
help system for your compiler. Or ask in the newsgroup dedicated to
your compiler (see the 'borland.public.*' hierarchy).

V
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