Hello, up to now I've been working with VS, but got employed last week to work on a Mac-Project. Because I don't know better, I decided to set up a C++ environment with eclipse, so that I can work with one IDE at work and at home without having to convert Project-Formats between VS and X Code. On Windows however I can't get the simplest SDL/OpenGL example compiled (which runs fine with VS 2008), because the linker tells me: C:\Programme\MinGW\lib/libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.text+0x104): undefined reference to `WinMain@16' A quick and dirty diagnosis: As far as I could find out on the Internet this has to do with the Project not being pure and proper Win32, meaning the compiler tries to create a console application. Sadly the Project creation dialog does not give me any options to influence this like in VS. I also been through the whole project settings dialogs and could not find anything that worked. Anyone familiar with eclipse with the mingw g++ compiler and what project settings checkbox/compiler parameter to set in order to get it right? Thx! CaptNeo

Thx, I've tried it. The following is my console output:

**** Build of configuration Debug for project opengl_sdl2 ****

**** Internal Builder is used for build ****
g++ -IC:\Programme\MinGW\include\Development -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -osrc\opengl_sdl2.o ..\src\opengl_sdl2.cpp
g++ -LC:\Programme\MinGW\lib\Development\SDL -LC:\Programme\MinGW\lib -mwindows -oopengl_sdl2.exe src\opengl_sdl2.o -lmingw32 -lsdl -lopengl32 -lglu32
C:\Programme\MinGW\lib/libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.text+0x104): undefined reference to `WinMain@16'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Build error occurred, build is stopped
Time consumed: 625 ms.

Update: I've found, that sdlmain was missing. To make sure, I did not forget anything else, I've reshuffled the libs to confirm with an old VS project (should have done so in the first place for sure, sorry). So I get another error, which seems to be SDL specific:


**** Build of configuration Debug for project opengl_sdl2 ****

**** Internal Builder is used for build ****
g++ -LC:\Programme\MinGW\lib\Development\SDL -LC:\Programme\MinGW\lib -oopengl_sdl2.exe src\opengl_sdl2.o -lmingw32 -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lsdlmain -lsdl
C:\Programme\MinGW\lib\Development\SDL/libsdlmain.a(SDL_win32_main.o): In function `console_main':
/Users/hercules/trunk/SDL-1.2/./src/main/win32/SDL_win32_main.c:246: undefined reference to `SDL_main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Build error occurred, build is stopped
Time consumed: 235 ms.