Re: creating shared dlls yields undefined reference to `WinMain@16' in mingw 4.3

Daniel Walter wrote:

> 
>> Daniel Walter wrote:
>>> It appears that libmingw.a is causing the problem, though this library
>>> can be linked to form a dll as long as no gcj object files are linked as
>>> well. Below are the results of the attempts to link with 'g++ -v' first
>>> with gcj objects which failed and the second time with only g++ objects.
>>
>> So, which object file in libmingw.a contains the undefined reference to
>> `WinMain@16'  And what dependency is causing it to be pulled in?

> I tried adding -Wl,-y,_WinMain@16 so that I could find out where this
> reference was missing.  The result was main.o - this was also in the
> previous output.

OK, so there's a file called main.o that for some reason is pulled in when
linking.  I have no idea; I think we need mingw32 experts.

Andrew.