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

In my case, it's because I accidentally removed (not deleted) the stdafx.h and targetver.h files in the Header Files section.

Add these files back to Header Files and the problem is solved.

I had these:

#pragma comment( linker, "/entry:\"mainCRTStartup\"" ) // set the entry point to be main()

I just need to comment that (by prepending //) and it's good.