On 2013-11-08 12:18, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote: > 2013/11/8 Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se <mailto: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)
Hmmm, I have this hunch that the -nostdlib option that libtool adds to the g++ invocation beats -mwindows, just like it beats -pthread. But I don't know that for a fact... Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
