undefined reference to `WinMain' : When using Cygwin, SDL2 and Netbeans

Question

any help here would be appreciated. Ive really racked my brains at this, sooo.

I have installed cygwin, and Netbeans and have been successfully deving, compiling and run

Answer 1

For a library that I just built with Cygwin, I added the following compiler flags:

 -shared -Wl,--out-implib,lib$(LIB_NAME).dll.a

This allowed me to build my library without the dreaded, "missing WinMain," error message.

Answer 2

Have you tested with an #undef main infront of your main?

/*
 * If 'main' is defined we clear that definition
 * to get our default 'main' function back.
 */
#ifdef main
# undef main
#endif /* main */

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    // ...
    return 0;
}

Using Netbeans with Cygwin and SDL, including SDL.h creates strange error

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May also help:

I get "Undefined reference to 'WinMain@16'"

Under Visual C++, you need to link with SDL2main.lib. Under the gcc build environments including Dev-C++, you need to link with the output of "sdl-config --libs", which is usually: -lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -mwindows

( http://wiki.libsdl.org/FAQWindows#I_get_.22Undefined_reference_to_.27WinMain.4016.27.22 )