VS2015 C++ static initialization crash, possible bug

Question

I\'m seeing something weird happening with Visual Studio 2015 Community. Code that worked perfectly in VS2012 crashes at startup when ported to VS2015, before main is invoke

Answer 1

Well, @bogdan got it right. My project had a mix of settings that was neither /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE nor /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS. Once I fixed that, everything started to work as expected. My test projects had the same problem, I blame Microsoft for not having a clear "CLR windows app" C++ template any more in VS2015 (they want to push you to use C# for that, which makes sense most of the times, but not always).

I found this page particularly useful in explaining all the different settings that have to be consistent (it's not just /SUBSYSTEM...).

I wish I could mark @bogdan's comment as answer, but I can't see anything to do that.

Thanks Bogdan!