Error LNK2019 Unresolved External Symbol wWinMainCRTStartup

I saw the previous posting relating to LNK2019, but the solutions did not work for me.

I am migrating a eVC project to VS 2005. I have two LNK2019 errors.

Here is the description of the first error:

description: error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol wWinMain referenced in function
wWinMainCRTStartup
filename: corelibc.lib

I have the linker entry point set to: wWinMainCRTStartup
subsystem set to: Windows(/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)

The second error is different.
description: error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SHRecognizeGesture referenced in
function "protected: void __cdecl CGestureEdit::OnLButtonDown(unsigned
int,class CPoint)"
( OnLButtonDown@CGestureEdit@@IAAXIVCPoint@@@Z)
filename: GestureEdit.obj

I can't give too much detail for the second error, since I am still learning exactly what this application does. I am new at this company and am taking over their existing projects.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Error LNK2019 Unresolved External Symbol wWinMainCRTStartup

Steve Olson

For this kinda issue, refer to this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2097225&SiteID=1&mode=1
TomWardill
Thank you. I was able to fix the error.
Mark J.

The first error means you don't have a wWinMain function. As you may know, this is the Unicode entry point for a windows program, so that means that there must be a function in the program with the prototype of,

int WINAPI wWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPWSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow);
p_floyd

i have the same problem when migrating the code from vC++4.0 to vs2005,

1>Linking...
1>SelectPartDlg.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol SHSipPreference
1>FileOpenDlg.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SHSipPreference referenced in function "protected: void __cdecl CFileOpenDlg::SoftwareKeyboard(enum tagSIPSTATE)" ( SoftwareKeyboard@CFileOpenDlg@@IAAXW4tagSIPSTATE@@@Z)
1>InputSerNumber.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol SHSipPreference
1>RecordInfo.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol SHSipPreference
1>RTAView.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol SHSipPreference
1>RTA.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SHInitExtraControls referenced in function "public: virtual int __cdecl CRTAApp::InitInstance(void)" ( InitInstance@CRTAApp@@UAAHXZ)
1>RTAView.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SHChangeNotifyDeregister referenced in function "public: virtual __cdecl CRTAView::~CRTAView(void)" ( 1CRTAView@@UAA@XZ)
1>RTAView.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol SHChangeNotifyRegister referenced in function "public: virtual void __cdecl CRTAView::OnInitialUpdate(void)" ( OnInitialUpdate@CRTAView@@UAAXXZ)
1>corelibc.lib(wwinmain.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol wWinMain referenced in function wWinMainCRTStartup
1>ARMV4Dbg/RealWave_d.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 5 unresolved externals
1>Build log was saved at "file://e:\rta_2005\RTA_20070104_v2.7.12q\Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK (ARMV4I)\Debug\BuildLog.htm"

SHSipPreference is defined in its heaher file,but the lib cannot found by the vs2005, i don't know why, i am searching the reason.

the wWinMainCRTStartup i changed it to WinMainCRTStartup and passed the link step, but i am now have some running problems. any one will give a hand
Wayne.C
Post them, but in a separate thread.
mwmcdonald

Could you please explained you idea in a more detailed way I haven't gotten your hint.
Joel Hensley
What idea Don't you know how to create a new thread in the forum to ask a question
Error LNK2019 Unresolved External Symbol wWinMainCRTStartup

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