Error when compiling with luajit and lua-iup libs [visual c++ 2012]

I wrote an app with luajit and lua-iup, and link my app with static libs. But I got the following error:

------ Build started: Project: ConsoleApplication1, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
     Creating library C:\Users\root\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\ConsoleApplication1\Release\ConsoleApplication1.lib and object C:\Users\root\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\ConsoleApplication1\Release\ConsoleApplication1.exp
iup.lib(iupwindows_main.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main
C:\Users\root\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\ConsoleApplication1\Release\ConsoleApplication1.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Am I missing some libs and any idea about this?

Solution

Here is the answer form the author of IUP, hope this would be helpful to someone that met the same problem as me

It seems that you are building a console application. This means you need a “main” function. If you try instead to build a Windows application without a console, then IUP will implement the WinMain function for you and call your “main” function. In both cases you need the “main” function.