Embedding WinMain entrypoint into a class?

Question

I was wondering, is it possible to use the entry point of a win32 program - the WinMain - as a class method? For example;

class cApp {
public:
    cApp();
   ~cApp();

    cGuiManager* guiManager;
   cServerManager* serverManager;
    cAudioManager* audioManager;

    int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hInst, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow);
    static LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT nMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
};

Thanks!

Answer 1

No. WinMain cannot be a member of class as "entry" point of the program. And for that matter, WinMain cannot be in any namespace (other than the global namespace). For example, even user::WinMain as shown below cannot be the "entry" point of the program.

namespace user
{
     int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int );
}

Entry point of the program must be defined in the global namespace.

However, you can have a function with this name inside a class (or in some other namespace), which you can call from the actual entry point WinMain defined in the global namespace. ButcApp::WinMain (or user::WinMain) is in no way the "entry" point of the program.