416950 - Mingw build error: undefined reference to `WinMain@16' in progressui_win.cpp

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[David G King]

Build error as follows similar to Bug #411826

-DMOZILLA_CLIENT /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/u
pdater/progressui_win.cpp
<command line>:13:1: warning: "_WIN32_IE" redefined
<command line>:3:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/usr/bin/perl /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/config/version_win.pl -QUIET 1
-DEPTH ../../../../.. -TOPSRCDIR /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla -BITS 32 -OB
JDIR . -SRCDIR /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/upd
ater -DISPNAME Thunderbird -DEBUG 1 -BINARY updater.exe -RCINCLUDE /cygdrive/e/m
ozilla/source/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/updater/updater.rc
Creating Resource file: module.res
/cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/build/cygwin-wrapper windres -O coff --use-te
mp-file --include-dir /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/update/
src/updater -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -D_WIN32_IE=0x300 -DOSTYPE=\"WINNT5.1\" -DOSARC
H=WINNT -DNS_NO_XPCOM --include-dir /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/toolkit/x
re --include-dir /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/u
pdater --include-dir . --include-dir ../../../../../dist/include/libmar --includ
e-dir ../../../../../dist/include/libbz2 --include-dir ../../../../../dist/inclu
de/string --include-dir ../../../../../dist/include --include-dir ../../../../..
/dist/include --include-dir ../../../../../dist/include/nspr --include-dir ../..
/../../../dist/sdk/include -o module.res /cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/obj/thunderb
ird/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/updater/module.rc
/cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/mozilla/build/cygwin-wrapper g++ -mno-cygwin -o updat
er.exe  -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloade
d-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno
-long-long -pedantic -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -pipe  -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
 -DDEBUG_David -DTRACING -g  updater.o bspatch.o archivereader.o progressui_win.
o ./module.res -mconsole           -L../../../../../dist/bin -L../../../../../di
st/lib ../../../../../modules/libmar/src/libmar.a ../../../../../modules/libbz2/
src/libbz2.a  -lm  -lgdi32 -lwinmm -lwsock32 -lcomctl32 -lws2_32 -lshell32
e:/gnu/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(
.text+0x104): undefined reference to `WinMain@16'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[8]: *** [updater.exe] Error 1
make[8]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/e/mozilla/source/obj/thunderbird/toolkit/m
ozapps/update/src/updater'

Comment 1

[cls]

Attachment: v1.0

Comment 2

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

For what it's worth, I tried the patch v 1.0 in my MinGW build. 
It works as intended.

But on the other hand, is anyone building with MinGW interested in having the updater operational? Trying it now confirm working, but of course, no updates are found.