A main() function for cross-platform command-line programs.

This package solves two of the difficulties with porting UNIX command-line programs to Windows:

1. It allows unicode arguments via wmain(), and converts them to utf-8.
2. It automatically expands the wildcards * and ? in the arguments.

It is possible to turn off the wildcard expansion for certain arguments.

To use this package, simply include the "mainmacro.h" header file, and then use MAINMACRO() instead of main(), as shown in this example:

#include "mainmacro.h"

int MAINMACRO(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  // do stuff
  return 0;
}

The arguments received will be encoded as utf-8 (having been converted from the Windows-native utf-16).

Wildcard expansion will not automatically catch files that begin with ".". So if a directory contains these files:

.gitignore
file1.txt
file2.txt

Then the "dot" file will be skipped if the command is called like this:

C:\> example *
file1.txt
file2.txt

But it will not be skipped if the command is called like this:

C:\> example .*
.gitignore