Hi again, I solved this by going to Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Advanced and putting "main" as the value for the "Entry Point" field.
Is there any simpler alternative that you would like to suggest. I got the above help from an internet forum but may be this is not right and may be there is a better option. Any help? Best, asif On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:50 PM, asif saeed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Albrecht, > > Now I am getting this error: > > 2>MSVCRTD.lib(crtexew.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol > _WinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup > 2>E:\scratch\ttt\Debug\ttt.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved > externals > > I am using fltk-1.3.x-r8514 with Visual C++ 2010 Express. The fltddlld.dll > gets built ok. I get this linker error only at the very end. > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > Asif > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Albrecht Schlosser <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On 20.05.2011 16:58, asif saeed wrote: >> >> > I am trying to use E:\libs\fltk-1.3.x-r8514\test\fltkdlld.dll (that I >> built >> > using the debug config) with my own application that I initially created >> as >> > an empty Win32 project. The application gives me the following error: >> > >> > Unhandled exception at 0x5f43351b (MFC42D.DLL) in nctrf5.exe: >> 0xC0000005: >> > Access violation reading location 0x00000000. >> >> Sorry, I probably can't help with this, but maybe this advice can help: >> Be consistent with your linker options (/MD and /MT come to mind), and >> use the correct .lib and .dll files that belong together and have been >> built with the same options as your .exe. In case of doubt, clean the >> whole project and build it again... >> >> > My library is also using MFC - which I have isolated successfully. I >> need to >> > make it a Win32 application and NOT a console application - basically, >> do >> > not want to get blank (and black) command-prompt windows along with my >> GUI >> > application. Any help? >> >> There's a linker option somewhere to make your exe either a console or a >> windows application, something like /subsystem:console vs. >> /subsystem:windows. >> The latter is what you want. >> >> WRT to using MFC together with FLTK I don't know if this would work, and >> maybe nobody else here will know. You're probably on your own with this. >> >> Albrecht >> _______________________________________________ >> fltk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk >> > > _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
