Re: [AD] alternate entry point for allegro programs

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> As far as I know, Allegro's magic main in Windows is just to turn main into 
> WinMain. This is needed to make programs cross-platform, as Windows 
> requires the non-portable WinMain function instead of the standard main 
> function.
>  

Does anybody know what happens if a program contains both main() and 
WinMain()?

> In UNIX, all Allegro's main does is grab a copy of argv[0] to get the path 
> to the executable.
>  

There are other ways of getting the path, albeit probably less 
portable.  Grabbing argv is too trivial a reason to hijack the 
definition of main.

Peter