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

[Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>]

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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>

Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

I was not aware that my version (block-scoped static function forward
declaration) is not valid C. Thanks, Björn, for pointing out the gcc bugzilla
entries.

-- Hannes

> ---
>  compat/mingw.h |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
> index 290a9e6..a52e657 100644
> --- a/compat/mingw.h
> +++ b/compat/mingw.h
> @@ -228,9 +228,10 @@ char **env_setenv(char **env, const char *name);
>   * A replacement of main() that ensures that argv[0] has a path
>   */
>
> -#define main(c,v) main(int argc, const char **argv) \
> +#define main(c,v) dummy_decl_mingw_main(); \
> +static int mingw_main(); \
> +int main(int argc, const char **argv) \
>  { \
> -	static int mingw_main(); \
>  	argv[0] = xstrdup(_pgmptr); \
>  	return mingw_main(argc, argv); \
>  } \
> --
> 1.6.0.rc0.42.g186458