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

Set the system to console, following the previous suggestions. Only, also had to change the character set to Unicode, see the snapshot of Visual Studio 2015 above.