Error Lnk2019 Msvcrt .lib
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up How to get rid of this error: “MSVCRTD.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup” up vote 4 down vote favorite 1 I'm Helping a friend with her C++, but to be honest we need a big bit of help. Why we always get this error: "MSVCRTD.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol main referenced in function __tmainCRTStartup" The Code is below: //Maria Delgado (1013725) - Coursework 2 - Program Conducting timber component structural design #include
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symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartup Visual Studio Languages , Windows Desktop Development > C++ Standards, Extensions, and Interop Question 5 https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/14e85604-6929-4707-a22e-8cdf596926a6/msvcrtdlibcrtexewobj-error-lnk2019-unresolved-external-symbol-winmain16-referenced-in?forum=vclanguage Sign in to vote Hi,i am completely new to this and https://mihirknows.blogspot.com/2009/07/msvcrtdlibcrtexeobj-error-lnk2019.html have to learn the language fairly rapidly, got myself a decent book, but when i try and compile a simple hello world program i get the error:Linking...MSVCRTD.lib(crtexew.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartupDebug\dont know.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 error lnk2019 unresolved externalsBuild log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Justin Pyfrom\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\dont know\dont know\Debug\BuildLog.htm"dont know - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)the hello world code is in a .cpp file format and the code is:#include
stupid thing you might have done is that you did not had a main function. (try compiling following code) #include