Re: Using libtool via autotools causes linking problem on mingw

[Peter Rosin]

On 2013-11-08 12:18, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote:
> 2013/11/8 Peter Rosin <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> 
>     The SDL library, for some obscure reason, has its own special take on 
> that and
>     prescribes that you should keep using main() even if you are doing a GUI 
> app.
>     I think the SDLmain library contains the real address@hidden entry point 
> and that
>     entry point in turn calls the application main function. Or I should 
> perhaps
>     say SDL_main (see that -Dmain=SDL_main define above). Some part of this
>     fragile SDL crap fails. I don't know what.
> 
>     Perhaps the SDL_main library was compiled to expect an ordinary main entry
>     point instead of the GUI address@hidden version?
> 
>     Just to be clear, I'm not an SDL user. This is just my understanding of 
> this.
>     The above description might very well be flawed in some way, but SDL
>     initialization is peculiar.
> 
> 
> I can later try to add some of the options from the libtool invocation 
> generated
> by autoconf to my invocation of gcc to see which particular option causes the
> failure and then let you know. I think that your description of the way SDL 
> does
> things on mingw is sound (and I think that the goal is to ensure portability, 
> as
> unix programmers have no idea what the WinMain is)

Hmmm, I have this hunch that the -nostdlib option that libtool adds to the
g++ invocation beats -mwindows, just like it beats -pthread. But I don't
know that for a fact...

Cheers,
Peter