[SDL] Dev C++ Linking Issues

[Elden Armbrust]

Glad to hear it wasn't something horrible and life threatening ;)
Best of luck with your project.

-Elden

Tim Swast wrote:

> Thank you very much. All I had to do was add the int argc, char 
> *argv[] parameters to main and it linked fine. I would have never 
> thought that those parameters would have been the problem.
>
> On 9/29/05, *Tyler Montbriand* <tsm at accesscomm.ca 
> <mailto:tsm at accesscomm.ca>> wrote:
>
>
>     1) It has to be int main(int argc, char *argv[]), not int main().
>     SDL expects, nay, *demands* it take those two parameters.
>
>     2) If your main is in a C++ file, chances are your 'main' function
>     is not
>     really called 'main' as far as the linker's concerned, but
>     1502347xcgxf532189_main@ or some other garbage.  C++ mangles the
>     names to
>     prevent overloaded functions from having the same names.
>
>     Fortunately, there's a way to tell C++ to do that.  Try:
>       extern "C" int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>     instead of
>       int main()
>
>     and tell me how it goes :)
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Tim Swast
> Purple {Programming} Monkey King
>
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