Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010706101048.022e3030@mail> X-Sender: superbiskit@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:13:00 -0400 To: Mumit Khan , Mo DeJong From: "David A. Cobb" Subject: Re: Problem choosing exe entry point. Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy. Get my PGP key at : Fingerprint=0x{6E3E_DB8C_2E8C_4248_62B2_FE29_08EE_CF0A_3629_E954} : "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." --The Way of a Pilgrim, R. M. French [tr.] Potentially Viral Software is any software for which you are not allowed to examine the source. Do not buy or use Potentially Viral Software! <---.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/