Replacing WinMain() with main() function in Win32 programs

Question

I searched a little bit on StackOverflow and Google but couldn\'t get the idea. I want to start my application with this type of user programming:

int main()         


        

Answer 1

You can use standard main in a "windows" app (that is, a GUI subsystem Windows application) even with the Microsoft tools, if you add the following to the Microsoft linker options:

/subsystem:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup

Note that this is not necessary for the GNU toolchain.

Still for the Microsoft tools you can alternatively add this to your main file:

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#    pragma comment(linker, "/subsystem:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")
#endif

@James McNellis tells you how to get the hInstance.