Custom C startup code (mainCRTStartup) implementation for GCC/MinGW.
Nocrt0 is a custom C startup code without any dependencies of the standard C runtime libraries. It is intended for building very small executable files under OS Windows(R). Nocrt0 was successfully tested with GCC/MinGW and Pelles C. It is also possible that nocrt0 could be adapted for other C compilers, including Microsoft Visual C, as well, however, the source code requires some of C99 language features, so it cannot be compiled with msvc directly.
There are two modules: nocrt0w for GUI applications, and nocrt0c for console
applications. Simply add the correct source into your project and build it without
linking to the default C startup code (hint: for GCC you will need -nostartfiles
or
-nostdlib
option).
The process of building nocrt0 can also be controlled with the following DEFINEs:
-D_UNICODE
-DNODEFAULTLIBS
-DARGV={own | msvcrt | shell32 | none}
-D_UNICODE
builds "wide" version of the startup code (wmain
or wWinMain
).
-DNODEFAULTLIBS
when defined compiles built-in implementation of _alloca()
and
__chkstk()
. You might need it if you don't want to link with libgcc.a.
-DARGV
is used for a console application (nocrt0c) only. It selects the type of the
underlying implementation of the standard command-line parser (argc/argv). own
(default) is the built-in implementation (note: envp
is not supported and is always set
to NULL); msvcrt
makes use of an external function __getmainargs()
(which is normally
imported from msvcrt.dll); shell32
relies on CommandLineToArgvW()
function from
shell32.dll; none
is for applications that do not need any command-line processing
(int main(void)
).