[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015733]: Linker EntryPoint inconsistency

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15733 
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Reported By:                M. Schneider
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15733
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-09-10 04:12 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-09-10 04:12 EDT
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Summary:                    Linker EntryPoint inconsistency
Description: 
Inconsistency occurs for Windows CE when creating a project for building an
executable using Unicode. This causes build errors for builds using VS
generator.

Because of portability reason to standard c code, console executables on CE use
mainACRTStartup as entry point.

For Ninja Generator this linker flag is set properly (defined in
Windows-MSVC.cmake line 39ff, applied in cmMakefileExecutableTargetGenerator.cxx
199ff) depending on system name - using CMAKE_CREATE_CONSOLE_EXE variable.

If VS2012 project is set as generator entry point is set to mainWCRTStartup
(cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx line 2396ff).

>From my point of view all generators should create same flags although VS build
can be fixed using

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS
"/ENTRY:mainACRTStartup")

for WinCE in corresponding CMakeLists.txt.


An idea is instead of using a separate logic for determining entry point, stick
to your CMAKE_CREATE_CONSOLE_EXE/CMAKE_CREATE_WIN32_EXE variables.

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Issue History 
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2015-09-10 04:12 M. Schneider   New Issue                                    
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