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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:12:37 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Win32: Fix compilation with SDL.
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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Stefan Weil wrote:
> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
>   
>> Stefan Weil wrote:
>>     
>>> `sdl-config --cflags` defines main = SDL_main
>>> on some platforms. One of these platforms is
>>> Windows with mingw32.
>>>   
>>>       
>> How about adding -Umain to SDL_CFLAGS on _WIN32 and and __APPLE__?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>
>>     
>
> I think -Dmain=SDL_main was added to the SDL CFLAGS because
> the SDL implementation needs some special startup code.
> Redefining main (or directly using the correct name) is typical
> for windows gui applications.
>
> -Umain would destroy this mechanism and create an executable
> which won't run in the worst case.
>   

Why do we need to do anything special then?

I don't understand what the point of the qemu_main stuff is.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori