old BCB6 question about wmain

[alank2 5]

I still have some projects in the old bcb6 that I need to compile sometimes.  One thing I noticed is that if I create a new win32 console mode application, it doesn't let me replace main;

 

int main(int argc, char* argv[])

 

With wmain:

 

int wmain(int argc, wchar_t* argv[])

 

In cppb10 there is an option _TCHAR maps to where you can select char or wchar_t and this seems to clue the linker in to look for main or wmain.  Is there an equivalent option for bcb6? (for anyone who remembers this old compiler!)

 

I tried looking in the compiler/linker settings, but I am missing it or it doesn't exist.

 

[Roger Cigol 107]

I would plump for "doesn't exist". BCB6 had very little (no?) support for unicode

[Remy Lebeau 1436]

4 hours ago, Roger Cigol said:

I would plump for "doesn't exist".

You would be correct.  There is no "TCHAR maps to" option (or equivalent) in BCB6.  Although you can manually define UNICODE to swap TCHAR between char and wchar_t during compiling, that has no effect on the linker or the startup code.

Edited February 28, 2023 by Remy Lebeau

[alank2 5]

Thanks for checking!

 

I found the option -WU mentioned in the help and it works at the command line, but putting it in CFLAG1 in the BPR file did not accomplish anything.