I had to brush up on my C++ before I could start doing graphical programming. So I went into Visual C++ 6.0 and started practicing using classes and header files. Suddenly I got this error: LNK2001 unresolved external symbol _winmain@16 I started to wonder what was causing this and went back to the simple HelloWorld program. Now this program was giving me an error too. I found a small way around the problem, but it is very inefficient. (Basically I just make a cpp file to start and then it builds a project instead of the reverse order) I have been through all of the help, etc. and I still dont know how to fix it. Any one have any suggestions? Do you think a file could have somehow become corrupt and I should reinstall? Thanks

When you created your project, did you make a Win32 app, or a Win32 console app? If it''s not a console app, you need to use WinMain instead of main.

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Martee

Thanks a lot, I now can do it as a console.

However, when I try to do it as a WinApp, it still gives the same error. Additionally, it has a warning:
"WinMain must be _stdCall"
While this isnt important for a program such as helloworld (I can do that in a windows console), this could be important later. I have changed the "main" to "winmain" (with different combinations of capital letters) and it still gives the unresolved external symbol.

What now? Thanks.

You need to put WINAPI (or _stdcall, or PASCAL, or APIENTRY, etc.)before WinMain. It should look something like this:

  int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpszArgument, int nCmdShow)  

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Martee

Yeah, that should fix it. I''m getting ready to release a 3 part series of tutorials on basic windows programming without using the wizard; I''ll post here when it''s ready.
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WNDCLASSEX Reality;
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Reality.lpfnWndProc=ComputerGames;
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RegisterClassEx(&Reality);


Unable to register Reality...what''s wrong?
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Dan Upton
Lead Designer
WolfHeart Software