Re: [PATCH 1/5] add an extra level of indirection to main()

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:04:44AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi Peff,
> 
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > I waffled between the two mechanisms. Opinions welcome.
> 
> I am happy you took the cmd_main() approach: we do have to play some
> tricks on Windows, in particular in some upcoming changes that support
> building with MS Visual C++ (we want to ensure that `argv` is in UTF-8,
> which means that we actually have to use the UTF-16 versions and convert
> them manually lest argv has the current Windows encoding of strings).
> Which means that we still have to use that mingw_startup() trick you
> mentioned, and which would have interfered had you chosen a similar
> method.

I actually wondered if it would make sense to get rid of the
mingw_main() macro, and do it here as just:

    #ifdef MINGW
    mingw_startup();
    #endif

or something. But I didn't look deeply at it, and anyway I am afraid to
touch anything in that area because I can't even compile-test it.

> > diff --git a/common-main.c b/common-main.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..2b96bbf
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/common-main.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> > +#include "git-compat-util.h"
> > +
> > +int main(int argc, char **av)
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * This const trickery is explained in
> > +	 * 84d32bf7678259c08406571cd6ce4b7a6724dcba
> 
> This commit message says that mingw_main() is declared with char **argv,
> and that is the reason why we have to convert. Maybe spell that out here,
> and then in a subsequent commit, we can fix the mingw_main() declaration?

The description was sufficiently long that I didn't want to try
repeating it, and opted for a reference instead. If you're planning to
fix mingw_main(), I'd be happy to do that as a preparatory patch, and
then just skip this trickery entirely. :)

-Peff