visual studio fatal error LNK1120:

Question

just i wanted to make a program using viual stidio 2010 when i do build i have this excaption i just wrote empty main c++ program (no syntax errors)

what i got is:

1>LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _mainCRTStartup
1>c:\users\dell\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\test\Debug\test.exe : 
fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

code is :

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "Hello World" << endl; 
    return 0;
}

please help me to fix it asap thanks ,,

Solution

You created a Win32-Project! Make sure that you choose Console Application in the project wizard.