LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup

Question

I have the following error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup,

There are a lot of threads relating to this error bu

Answer 1

I got this error while I was trying to turn off precompiled headers in a Console Application Project and removing the header file stdafx.h

To fix this go to your project properties -> Linker -> SubSystem and change the value to Not Set

In your main class, use the standard C++ main function protoype that others have already mentioned :

int main(int argc, char** argv)