Compiling a "Windows Console" version

[fizzix]

So does that mean you've managed to get it to work now?

In the Visual Stuido IDE, I compile it with:

1) The compiler constant USE_WCN defined
2) The compiler constant WINDOWS defined
3) main-wcn.c included, but not any of the other main-xxx.c files

I wouldn't know how to create a makefile to do that, though.

I mean that I was able to compile the current version the old way, with Makefile.win and main-win.c . I was just verifying that the problems I was running into were dealing with the new compilation attempt and not something funky with the current version on git.

Yeah, there needs to be a new Makefile, my cosmetic changes aren't going to cut it. That's where the problem is. Unfortunately, I don't know how to create that makefile though...

[Nick]

Yeah, there needs to be a new Makefile, my cosmetic changes aren't going to cut it. That's where the problem is. Unfortunately, I don't know how to create that makefile though...

IIRC there is a "create makefile" (or something) option in Visual Studio.

[Dean Anderson]

IIRC there is a "create makefile" (or something) option in Visual Studio.

Not since 2005, unfortunately...

So it looks like for the moment, we a set of patches and a file that can be used to build a native Windows Console version of Angband, but we need someone with the makefile-fu to be able to make them useful to people who aren't using Visual Studio.

[Magnate]

Not since 2005, unfortunately...

So it looks like for the moment, we a set of patches and a file that can be used to build a native Windows Console version of Angband, but we need someone with the makefile-fu to be able to make them useful to people who aren't using Visual Studio.

Well, this can't be impossible. I'm not a Makefile genius myself, but I know a lurker who is.

[Dean Anderson]

tried compiling with the current nightly builds and your code and got the following error:

undefined reference to `WinMain@16' in main.c

In order to compile, a made a Makefile-wcn and changed main-win.o to main-wcn.o after applying the patches.

edit: I'm attempting to compile on XP using MingW if that makes a difference.

I've managed to reproduce this error in Visual Studio, by the way. It's not anything in the code. It's in the compiler settings.

It's what you get if you tell it to compile the code into a Windows app rather than into a Console app.

In Visual Studio that's decided when you create the project file. I haven't a clue how to make the distinction in a makefile though.