link error when using _tmain

[Dave Murphy]

Hi,

I'm trying to write some code which will deal with unicode filenames but
I'm having a bit of difficulty. The final object of the exercise is to
create an application which will build a VFAT disk image for use in an
embedded system which can be compiled on windows, linux and OSX.

Using some sample code found on msdn at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365200.aspx I've put together
some basic test code but unfortunately this fails to link. The code in
question is as follows

#define _UNICODE
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
#include <Windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <wchar.h>

#define BUFSIZE MAX_PATH

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR *argv[]) {
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
    HANDLE hFind = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
    DWORD dwError;
    LPTSTR DirSpec;
    size_t length_of_arg;
    INT retval;

    DirSpec = (LPTSTR) malloc (BUFSIZE);

    if( DirSpec == NULL ) {
        printf( "Insufficient memory available\n" );
        retval = 1;
    }

    _tprintf (TEXT("Target directory is %s.\n"), argv[0]);

    printf("sizeof TCHAR is %d\n", sizeof(_TCHAR));

    unsigned char *tempBuffer = (unsigned char *)argv[0];

    for ( int i=0; i<10; i++ ) {

        printf("%02X",tempBuffer[i]);
    }

    printf("\n");

    return 0;
}

The link error is

/mingw/lib/libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.text+0x106): undefined
reference to `WinMain@16'

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Is there a simpler way to do this and avoid the win32 specific code? I'm
intending to work with UTF8 on linux & OSX and convert that into the
VFAT UTF16 format.

Dave



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[Tor Lillqvist]

Dave Murphy writes:
 > I'm trying to write some code which will deal with unicode
 > filenames

 > #define _UNICODE
 > #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501

 > #include <tchar.h>

 > int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR *argv[]) {

No need to use that _UNICODE, <tchar.h>, _tmain and TCHAR stuff just
because you want to handle Unicode filenames. (Especially not if you
come from a Unix background and find it weird. It just makes Windows
programming seem more obscure than it actually is.)

Also, as you notice, the #define _UNICODE and then _tmain(int,TCHAR**)
approach apparently isn't implemented on mingw.

Just write a normal C program with main(int argc, char **argv), and
then for full Unicode file names use wchar_t strings and the wide char
versions of the Win32 API explicitly.

If you want to be able to accept full Unicode command-line arguments,
I suggest you fetch the wide character command line separately with
GetCommandLineW() and split it into a wide character string array with
CommandLineToArgvW().

 > #include <Windows.h>

Just spell it <windows.h> like everybody else.

 > The link error is
 >
 > /mingw/lib/libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.text+0x106): undefined
 > reference to `WinMain@16'

If you look in mingw's <tchar.h> you see:

#if 0  /* no  wide startup module */
#define _tmain      wmain
#define _tWinMain   wWinMain
#define _tenviron   _wenviron
#define __targv     __wargv
#endif

I.e. mingw doesn't implement a wide character startup module, so using
a wmain() (which _tmain is supposed map to when _UNICODE is defined)
won't work.

 > Is there a simpler way to do this and avoid the win32 specific
 > code? I'm intending to work with UTF8 on linux & OSX and convert
 > that into the VFAT UTF16 format.

If you can accept a 3rd-party LGPL library dependency, GLib contains
directory reading functions and uses UTF-8 for file names on
Windows. See
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-File-Utilities.html#GDir

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