Please help
Mar 17, 2014 at 5:06am UTC
what is wrong with my code
I am getting these errors
Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup
Error 2 error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
bool die( const string & msg );
int main(){
cout <<"Choices:" <<endl;
cout <<"A Astronomy" <<endl;
cout <<"B Biology" <<endl;
cout <<"C Computer Programming" << endl;
cout <<"H History" <<endl;
cout <<"input a letter to designate your choice: " ;
char choice;
cin >>choice;
if ( !cin ) die( "input failure" );
if ( 'a' <= choice && choice <= 'z' )
choice += 'A' - 'a' ;
// switch conditional (choice) must be fixed-point type
switch ( choice ){
// case label must be fixed-point constant
case 'A' :
cout <<"The mass of the sun is 2 * 10^30 kilograms" <<endl;
break ;
case 'B' :
cout <<"Life is impossible without ribosomes" <<endl;
break ;
case 'C' :
cout <<"The halting problem has been proved impossible" <<endl;
break ;
case 'H' :
cout <<"The Articles of Confederation were considerably less "
"successful than the constitution" <<endl;
break ;
default :
cout <<"Sorry, that doesn't match any of the subjects I know" <<endl;
}
} // main
bool die( const string & msg ){
cout <<endl <<"Fatal error: " <<msg <<endl;
exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
} // die
Mar 17, 2014 at 5:16am UTC
The code compiles without error (Microsoft visual 2013 express).
Mar 17, 2014 at 5:27am UTC
It probably has to do with the fact that you selected to create a win32 project instead of a console project. You can change the subsystem properties of your project.
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