Question

I have a new main function that I asked the linker to point to in the Visual Studio.

I can correctly execute this function. However the command line arguments that I am getting is not correct.

Currently this is my signature

int NewMain(int argc, const char* argv[])
    {
    cout << "New Main" << endl;
    for (int i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
        {
        cout << argv[i] << "\n";
        }
    return 0;
    }

However when I use the same function with the standard main, I am getting all the arguments.

Answer 1

When you specify an entry point to the linker, the function that gets called is not passed any arguments. Its signature is int entrypoint(void);

If you want the command line, you can retrieve it with GetCommandLine. If you want to parse that into arguments, you can either do so on your own, or use CommandLineToArgvW — but note that this is only available in a wide-character version, so if you want a standard command line (using chars, not wchar_ts) you have to do that on your own.