Re: Fatal errors: unresolved externals ?

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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <339A880B.27@online.no>, Lee Francis Wilhelmsen
<leefw@online.no> writes
>I use the MS Visual C++ 4.0 software package, and although I have no
>problems compiling, I'm having difficulties linking! I keep on getting
>one error as follows:
>
>Linking...
>LIBCD.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main
>Sysmets1.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>Error executing link.exe.
>Sysmets1.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
>Any comments or suggestions?

By default the linker tries to create a console application, whose entry
point is a function called "main". You are presumably trying to create
Windows app, which doesn't have a "main" function, hence the message. To
tell the linker to create a Windows app, add:

        /subsystem:windows

to the list of linker options.

Chris

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From: Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Fatal errors: unresolved externals ?
Date: 1997/06/08
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