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Posted by Jackson Monk
Jackson Monk
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Winmain@16 error

Does anyone know how to fix the "undefined reference to "Winmain16" error? (There is supposed to be an at symbol between main and 16 but treehouse does something weird if I put that symbol in the text). I am trying to get SDL to work with VS Code and I get that error. It seems that this is a common error, looking it up on the internet. Yet through all of those webpages I couldn't find one valid solution. Here is my json file I'm trying to build with to make this work:

{
    // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "echo",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "g++",
            "args": [
                "-g",
                "-o",
                "-c",
                "C:/MinGW/bin/main2.cpp",
                "C:/MinGW/bin/main.cpp",
                "C:/MinGW/bin/SDL2.lib",
                "-lmingw32",
                "-mwindows"
            ],
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$gcc"
            ]
        },
        {
            "label": "echo",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "g++",
            "args": [
                "-o",
                "C:\\MinGW\\bin\\main.cpp",
                "C:\\cpp\\pointer.o"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$gcc"
            ]
        }
    ]
}