Question

I created a new blank win32 C++ project in Visual Studio 2010. I inputted the following code:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  cout << "hi" << endl;
}

I get this error upon compilation: external symbol not resolved.

Any thoughts on why this might be? I’ve tried including other headers such as stdio.h to no avail. Thank you!

Answer 1

You need WinMain for Win32 projects:

int WINAPI WinMain(
  HINSTANCE hInstance, 
  HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, 
  LPWSTR lpCmdLine, 
  int nShowCmd 
);