Re: [PATCH] Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors

From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Jul 27, 2008, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <1217186640.488ccb50a934a@webmail.nextra.at>
In-Reply-To: <4CCD1862-48FB-412B-80B6-E1B822BF3A87@zib.de>

Zitat von Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>:

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> On Jul 26, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
> > Zitat von Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>:
> >> With MinGW's
> >>
> >>   gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw special)
> >>   GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060824
> >>
> >> the old define caused link errors:
> >>
> >>   git.o: In function `main':
> >>   C:/msysgit/git/git.c:500: undefined reference to `mingw_main'
> >>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >>
> >> The modified define works.
> >
> > I have the same tools, but not this error. ???
>
> I cleaned my work tree and built several times but did not
> find out what exactly is causing the error.  So I came up
> with the modified define, which declares the static
> mingw_main in global scope.  I have no clue why I see the
> error that you don't have.

Neither do I. But a strange line number you have there. In 01d9b2d (from mingw.git) I have 'exit(1)' in line 500 of git.c.

-- Hannes