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 had this error when accidentally putting the wmain inside a namespace. wmain should not be in any namespace. Moreover, I had a main function in one of the libs I was using, and VS took the main from there, what made it even stranger.