[scintilla:feature-requests] #1586 SciTE: change win32 main function to wWinMain

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Zufu Liu

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May 28, 2026, 6:19:27 AM (6 days ago) May 28
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[feature-requests:#1586] SciTE: change win32 main function to wWinMain

Status: open
Group: Initial
Labels: SciTE win32
Created: Thu May 28, 2026 10:19 AM UTC by Zufu Liu
Last Updated: Thu May 28, 2026 10:19 AM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson

This makes SciTE.exe 1KB smaller (probably due to CRT startup code don't need to convert command line argument from wide to narrow).

- int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)
+ int WINAPI wWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE, LPWSTR, int)

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Neil Hodgson

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May 29, 2026, 7:06:59 PM (5 days ago) May 29
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That didn't work with MinGW-w64.

C:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: C:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/../lib/libmingw32.a(lib64_libmingw32_a-crtexewin.o): in function `main':
E:\temp\gcc\build-mingw-w64\mingw-w64-crt/../../src/mingw-w64-crt/crt/crtexewin.c:70:(.text.startup+0xbd): undefined reference to `WinMain'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make: *** [makefile:184: ../bin/SciTE.exe] Error 1

Zufu Liu

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May 30, 2026, 6:31:54 AM (4 days ago) May 30
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win32\makefile needs LDFLAGS += -mwindows -municode.

[feature-requests:#1586] SciTE: change win32 main function to wWinMain

Status: open
Group: Initial
Labels: SciTE win32
Created: Thu May 28, 2026 10:19 AM UTC by Zufu Liu

Last Updated: Fri May 29, 2026 11:06 PM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson

Neil Hodgson

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May 31, 2026, 3:04:43 AM (4 days ago) May 31
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Committed as [ad12ac].

[feature-requests:#1586] SciTE: change win32 main function to wWinMain

Status: open
Group: Committed


Labels: SciTE win32
Created: Thu May 28, 2026 10:19 AM UTC by Zufu Liu

Last Updated: Sat May 30, 2026 10:31 AM UTC
Owner: Neil Hodgson

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