From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4392 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2011 20:37:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 4377 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Oct 2011 20:37:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:37:15 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHiJd-0004Ro-NK for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:37:13 +0200 Received: from p4fc61430.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.198.20.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:37:13 +0200 Received: from philipp.kraus by p4fc61430.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:37:13 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Philipp Kraus Subject: Re: g++ linker problem with libcygwin.a Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Unison/2.1.5 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00444.txt.bz2 Thanks for your great answer. On 2011-10-22 22:17:06 +0200, René Berber said: > On 10/22/2011 2:18 PM, Philipp Kraus wrote: > >> I use Cygwin with g++ for compiling my source codes and on some codes I >> get the error: >> >> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../libcygwin.a(libcmain.o):(.text+0xa9): >> >> undefined reference to `_WinMain@16' > [snip] > > That means the linking is being done for a GUI application. I guess you > wanted to build a console application, so you should learn what these > options for the linker mean: > > -Wl,-subsystem,console > -Wl,-subsystem,windows > > There are equivalent options used with the compiler g++, I think they are: > > -mconsole > -mwindows Yes I would build a console application (or a shared library, I can build the library). I have tried both commands -mconsole and -Wl,-subsystem,console but the error is created again. Should I rebuild my libraries with the -mconsole option, at the time I have build them only with configure, make, make install? Thanks Phil -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple