On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 10:26:40 UTC, Sam E. wrote:
Really, there's no reason at all to use WinMain. Just create a
standard main function. Then you don't need to worry about
manually initializing the runtime and you'll have a console
window by default. You can always turn it off in anything you
want to ship without the console by adding the appropriate
dflags to your dub file:
-L/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS -L/ENTRY:mainCRTStartup
Conversely, you can get the console window in a WinMain app
with:
-L/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE -L/ENTRY:WinMainCRTStartup
Though, again, there's really no reason to use WinMain.
I took the WinMain from https://wiki.dlang.org/D_for_Win32,
should that documentation be updated to use a normal main
function instead? Also the details regarding linker flags may
be a good addition to that wiki page.
Just to confirm what Mike was saying: removing the WinMain
completely and using a normal main function with calls to Win32
functions builds and works perfectly fine, that's a way nicer
approach.
