The main problem was…
Posted by danielmeyer on November 19, 2009
Just having started at a new company recently, up to this point I had only contributed to an existing C++ project; but yesterday I needed to create a new one myself. After getting a basic makefile put together and putting some necessaries in the precompiled header, I bumped into a couple of linker errors:
link.exe @C:\DOCUME~1\DANIEL~1.MEY\LOCALS~1\Temp\mk1178003 /out:"DebugU\MyUtilityUD.exe" LINK : DebugU\MyUtilityUD.exe not found or not built by the last incremental link; performing full link Creating library DebugU\MyUtilityUD.lib and object DebugU\MyUtilityUD.exp main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) int __cdecl ir::recorderserver::ace_os_main_i(class ACE_Main_Base &,int,char * * const)" (__imp_?ace_os_main_i@recorderserver@ir@@YAHAAVACE_Main_Base@@HQAPAD@Z) referenced in function "int __cdecl ir::recorderserver::wmain(int,wchar_t * * const)" (?wmain@recorderserver@ir@@YAHHQAPA_W@Z) msvcrtd.lib(wcrtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _wmain referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup DebugU\MediaStatusGenUD.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
I had a main() function. Did ACE expect _wmain() ? Or some weird ace_os_main_i()?
No, I had just placed my main() function inside a couple of namespaces rather than at the global level. Doh! Of course, main() needs to be declared in the global namespace.
Noting here so next time I don’t spend an hour of futile fiddling with the makefile for this. ;)
