Hi Christian, On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Christian Hesse wrote: > From: Christian Hesse <mail@xxxxxxxx> > > Commit 08aade70 (mingw: declare main()'s argv as const) changed > declaration of main function. This breaks linking external projects > (e.g. cgit) to libgit.a with: > > error: Multiple definition of `main' > > So do not add common-main to lib and let projects have their own > main function. I am opposed to this change. For one, libgit.a is *not* a library with an API, for a good reason: nothing in Git's development guarantees any kind of stable API. For that reason, libgit.a is not installed, either, and neither are any headers. And even more importantly: *iff* you *insist* on using libgit.a in your project *despite* having been told not to, it is your responsibility to stay up-to-date with the requirements of it. One such requirement is that you now implement cmd_main() instead of main(). So if you want to continue to have an out-of-tree project that links against the (private) libgit.a, it is your out-of-tree project that needs changing, not libgit.a. Ciao, Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html