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Bug 3579

Summary: SDL_main seems not working and not-using on MinGW (non-w64).
Product: SDL Reporter: Vitaly Novichkov <admin>
Component: mainAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (All)   

Description Vitaly Novichkov 2017-02-02 09:06:18 UTC 
Because SDL_main doesn't works on MinGW (MinGW itself uses generic main or ANSI-based WinMain).

Myself I implemented the thing which will 100% give UTF8 into the main() function:
https://github.com/WohlSoft/PGE-Project/tree/master/_common/Utf8Main

I just ignoring all arguments of WinMain, and taking command line by GetCommandLineW(), then splitting it into separated arguments by CommandLineToArgvW call and then converting each argument into UTF-8 to store into separated array which will be sent into regular main function.

Also, my reply is: if you have no UNICODE macro, just don't use WinMain's arguments and get them by GetCommandLineW() call, split and convert into UTF8.