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I’m porting a C++ application from Unix and the original developer created several files with main() functions, then use Makefile to choose which main() to use.
How do choose which file contains the main() function in Visual C++ 2010?
Currently, when I compile I get a linker error due to duplicate main() symbols.
The only thing I can think of is macro conditional.
Any other ideas?
Multiple
mainfunctions mean that the original code does not create a single executable, but rather a set of them. You should figure out what parts belong to each one of the executables (read the Makefile) and then create different projects inside the solution one for each one of the executables (do the same for the libs). Then you can use the IDE to select which executable you want to compile/run.