SDL problem- main() vs WinMain()

Is there any reason why you need WinMain? Is seems that you have to choose between one or the other. SDL aims to abstract the user from platform specifics and therefore have their own facilities for windowing, event handling, etc. Also, you dont get much faster than the win32 functions, what in particular do you find is a performance issue?

Well, performance-wise, I thought I've read somewhere SDL is faster (isn't it hardware-accelerated even without OpenGL?).
As for WinMain, I don't need it; I need WndProc(), which allowed me to respond to the Windows messages (WM_), particularly the keys messages.

SDL has its own way to handle user input and window events.

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Original post by asdqwe Well, performance-wise, I thought I've read somewhere SDL is faster (isn't it hardware-accelerated even without OpenGL?).

This is wrong. You won't see the same benefits as you would by using OpenGL for graphics.

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Original post by asdqwe As for WinMain, I don't need it; I need WndProc(), which allowed me to respond to the Windows messages (WM_), particularly the keys messages.

You don't need WinMain for that. If you need to get the HINSTANCE, you can just call GetModuleHandle(NULL) to get that.