Version for windows/console compilation?

Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 10 18:36:29 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 10 September 2015 at 18:10:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
>
> BTW it is pretty rare that you should actually write a WinMain 
> in D. The right thing to do in most cases is to write a normal 
> main function. You can still get the windows gui subsystem with 
> a linker flag.

Specifically, add the following when using the Microsoft linker 
(compiling with -m64 or -m32mscoff):

-L/SUBSYSTEM:windows,6.00 -L/ENTRY:mainCRTStartup

And this when using OPTLINK:

-L/SUBSYSTEM:windows,5.01

The version numbers are optional. I use 6.00 with the MS linker 
because it covers both 32-bit and 64-bit apps on Vista and later, 
and is the default for the VS 2015 linker.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fcc1zstk.aspx

I don't think I've written a WinMain in D in 10 years.


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