From: scottc@net-community.com (Scott Christley) Subject: Redefining main() 11 Dec 1996 22:06:18 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612111729.JAA12039.cygnus.gnu-win32@stetson.net-community.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: scottc@net-community.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Original-To: Cygnus GNU-WIN32 Discussion Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I'm trying to compile the GNUstep Base Library with B17 and I've run into a linking problem. gnustep-base redefines main() for platforms which don't support adding pre-main initializers (like you can with ELF); gnustep-base does this: #define main() gnustep_base_user_main() Then it supplies its own main(). In this way it can do some processing before main() is called and call the user's main when its done. However, it appears that the linker is taking the main() out of libcygwin.a instead of the one in libgnustep-base.a; which cause the error below. Does anybody know how I can get this to work properly? gnustep-base/gnustep-base-win32/checks# make nsarray gcc -c -I../src -I../src/srcdir-include -I./../src -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -Wno-implicit -Wno-format -g -O -Wno-protocol nsarray.m -o nsarray.o gcc -Wall -Wno-implicit -Wno-format -g -O nsarray.o -o nsarray -L../src -lgnustep-base -lobjc -lm /MBCD/Production/Libraries/GNU-WIN32/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o): In function `main': /pizza/mushroom/noer/beta17/src/winsup/libcmain.cc:30: undefined reference to `WinMain@16' make: *** [nsarray] Error 1 thanks Scott - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".