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_WinMain@16 is the decorated symbol of the user-provided entry point called by the startup code in the CRT, when targeting the Windows subsystem. It's not "Microsoft's name for main when linking".

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WinMain is the windows version of main () that MinGW supplies if it sees a main () function in your code.

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WinMain@16 usually appears when you try to compile some files, which don't contain the main()/WinMain() function (starting point of the program). In your case, not including the source file with the main()/WinMain() function in it was causing your troubles. edited Nov 5, 2021 at 6:52. David Buck.

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When compiling without any type of graphics like -libs:qwin turned on our program runs fine. As soon as we turn on the option -libs:qwin we get this error: LIBCMT.lib (wincrt0.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup.

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217. erreur de linker : LNK2019 unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in .. j'essaye d'utiliser les programmes en C++ qui se trouvent dans la deuxième zip disponible ici: http://www.netlib.org/cgi-bin/search.pl. ce sont plus exactement: -com.c. -ranlib.h. -ranlib.c.

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With Visual C++ you get a complaint about missing _WinMain@16 when you try to build a GUI subsystem executable and implicitly or explicitly specify WinMain as the C++ main function, and your code doesn't provide one:

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I have finally successfully migrated an application created in Microsoft Visual Studio 17 years ago and recreated and run it using the Intel Fortran Classic compiler in integrated with VS 2019 Community edition. Its main dialog window opens when the application is run in the debugger, and child windows appear properly in response to ...

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error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function _WinMain@16. I've tried to apply "hot-fix" - remove value related to "/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS" from project properties->linker->command line->additonal options. but atm the value is not an additional option. additional options are:

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I am getting a [Linker Error] undefined reference to 'WinMain@16' and I am unable to fix the issue. I am using Dev-C++ - In my project settings 'Win32 Console' is selected as I want it to be a console application. Example Header (Test.h): #ifndef TEST_H. #define TEST_H.

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WHY does my code work fine by itself at the "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt," but not in VS2019 IDE (even with various modifications; such as changing the proc name to "wWinMain")?