• dnewbie (9/9) Oct 14 2013 Error 'undefined reference to `_Dmain'' when compiling
• David Nadlinger (11/20) Oct 14 2013 Thanks for going through the trouble to figure this one out.
• David Nadlinger (6/7) Oct 14 2013 That should have been -Wl,--subsystem,windows, or for use with LDC,

"dnewbie" <run3 myopera.com> writes:

Error 'undefined reference to `_Dmain'' when compiling 
samples\d\winsamp.d.

Workaround:
a) add main() that calls myWinMain
b) run objcopy for setting subsystem=windows and to get rid of 
the 'DOS window':
objcopy --subsystem windows:5.00 winsamp.exe winsamp2.exe

Example:
http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/8698696f

"David Nadlinger" <code klickverbot.at> writes:

On 14 Oct 2013, at 15:32, dnewbie wrote:
 Error 'undefined reference to `_Dmain'' when compiling 
 samples\d\winsamp.d.

 Workaround:
 a) add main() that calls myWinMain
 b) run objcopy for setting subsystem=windows and to get rid of the 
 'DOS window':
 objcopy --subsystem windows:5.00 winsamp.exe winsamp2.exe

 Example:
 http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/8698696f

Thanks for going through the trouble to figure this one out.

We should probably handle WinMain like DMD does in the long run to make 
it easier for people to write bare Win32 application. But until that's 
done, it would be great if you could put the above information in some 
place where  that others can find it, e.g. the wiki.

Regarding the windows subsystem, I believe there is a flag for the MinGW 
linker (-mwindows? -Wl,subsystem,windows?). You could try just 
specifying it on the LDC command line using -L, it should save you the 
extra step.

David

"David Nadlinger" <code klickverbot.at> writes:

On 15 Oct 2013, at 3:13, David Nadlinger wrote:
 -Wl,subsystem,windows

That should have been -Wl,--subsystem,windows, or for use with LDC, 
-L--subsystem -Lwindows.

It's been quite some while since I last messed around with those flags, 
and I never tried them with LDC so far.

David