Thread: Need help understanding this: Error -1073741819

I tried command line yesterday, tried double clicking via explorer still won't get anywhere, the very first thing it does is attempt to load the dll then reports it is going to try the API, then it checks the handle and reports failue in the event of a NULL handle and skips the rest of the code via a goto statement, otherwise it calls pawAPI( &paw, 0 ) to retrieve the default API, it then reports either failure or success of that and then cleans up before closing down. It does not even reach that first message which implies something goes wrong at the loading of the exe &/or dll

Edit: Seriously just look at the code before you make your next question, it has all the info you need
paw/pawchk.c at master * awsdert/paw * GitHub

Think I may have found the problem, I didn't realise that I had to tell gcc to manually define _WIN64 & _WIN32 despite having used the -mwindows flag, after having done that I finally got a more meaningful error (although I still don't know why I get it), the error I got was lack of WinMain (even though it is definitly there - incorrect definition perhaps?) so I'm gonna try some stuff then report back

Edit: Yep that was definitly the problem, as for the missing WinMain it was because my last edit of the makefile forgot to update some variable names in the exe compiling stage

Trouble-shooting is a lost art because people do not wish to learn how to do it! All this time, I thought people were not being taught it in schools as the issue.

Tim S.