[SDL] is SDL supposed to be using WinMain?

[malik martin]

oh, ok. now i understand.
it turns out that that wasn't the bug anyway. but that's very
interesting, i'm still a big noob when it comes to #ifndef/#ifdef and
things.

On 9/7/07, Lilith Calbridge <lilith at dcccd.edu> wrote:
> I won't claim expertise on this but I suspect what's happening is that
> winmain() is used but it's disguised as simple main().  Since SDL has
> been developed so as to be portable across multiple systems, it goes
> with the C standard of using main() as the entry point.  If development
> is done in a Windows oriented compiler then main() in the code gets
> transformed into winmain() where and when needed.
>
> --
> Lilith
>
> >>> On 9/7/2007 at 4:00 AM, "malik martin" <laserbeak43 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > i'm using some code that works with SDL and i get an exception at
> > runtime that i'm trying to debug. i'm very new to the debugger and
> am
> > learning by trial and error in visual studio 2005 as we speak.
> >
> > i'm stepping into the code from the beginning, and not far into it,
> i
> > end up at a file named crtexe.c
> > and i noticed:
> >
> > #ifdef _WINMAIN_
> >         _TUCHAR *lpszCommandLine;
> >         STARTUPINFO StartupInfo;
> >         BOOL inDoubleQuote=FALSE;   <-------cursor is on this line.
> >
> > any idea about wether or not it should be doing this?
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