Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <007b01c25db5$6af24040$0219a8c0@eric2k> From: ERIC KRAUSE (ekraus02) To: "Vince Mounts" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Problem building CVS version of binutils Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:15:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Vince Mounts writes: > I received an error during the link stage of building the CVS version of > binutils. > Here is my setup: > > Fresh install of all the latest packages.... > gcc 3.2-1 > gcc-mingw 3.2-20020817-1 > gcc2 2.95.3-10 > binutils 20020706-2 > > libintl 0.10.38-3 > > > Here is my error: > > gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -o cxxfilt.exe > cplus-dem.o underscore.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a ./../intl/libintl.a > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0 > x81): undefined reference to `_WinMain@16' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[3]: *** [cxxfilt.exe] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/f/dev/binutils/build/binutils' > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/f/dev/binutils/build/binutils' > make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/f/dev/binutils/build/binutils' > make: *** [all-binutils] Error 2 I've seen this kind of error before--none of the object files on the cmd-line provides main(), so the linker finds the one in the system libs. On Cygwin, this fallback main() calls a WinMain() function--but none of the object files on the cmd-line provides a WinMain(). Since there is no fallback WinMain (there has to be SOME way for execution flow to reach user code) the linker flags the missing WinMain as an error. I don't know why you're getting this error, but that's definitely what's causing it. --- Eric R. Krause -- 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/