I have a solution with two projects. One project (that is compiled first), compiles a .lib file. The second project is a standard .exe Windows application. Just to see if my lib is included i only have one file in the exe and ther's only: #include "WrathEngine.h" #pragma comment(lib, "WrathEngine.lib") int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 0; } but i keep getting this error 3D Engine Test error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function _mainCRTStartup i've looked all over and one place said make sure i have use of ATL to no and the subsystem to windows and i have that but it's still giving that linking issue.

yep, when i comment those two lines out, it works. This header out, are you just talking about that header i'm including? or is there another header that compiles that i need to check

also, when i link api libraries (such as sdl and opengl) in WrathEngine do i need to link all the libs and dlls in the exe project? i'm thinking also that sdl has something to do with it because it redefines main to SDL_main

yea that makes sense. So in a way it's like i need to double link. Link the libs to my exe and MY lib. and the same libs that i link to my exe are linked to my lib. yep.. tried that.

and yea, that's all the code in main.cpp