2013/11/8 Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> > The SDL library, for some obscure reason, has its own special take on that > and > prescribes that you should keep using main() even if you are doing a GUI > app. > I think the SDLmain library contains the real WinMain@16 entry point and > that > entry point in turn calls the application main function. Or I should > perhaps > say SDL_main (see that -Dmain=SDL_main define above). Some part of this > fragile SDL crap fails. I don't know what. > > Perhaps the SDL_main library was compiled to expect an ordinary main entry > point instead of the GUI WinMain@16 version? > > Just to be clear, I'm not an SDL user. This is just my understanding of > this. > The above description might very well be flawed in some way, but SDL > initialization is peculiar. > > I can later try to add some of the options from the libtool invocation generated by autoconf to my invocation of gcc to see which particular option causes the failure and then let you know. I think that your description of the way SDL does things on mingw is sound (and I think that the goal is to ensure portability, as unix programmers have no idea what the WinMain is)
Regards. M.
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