On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 15:54:04 UTC, krzaq wrote:
> Oh, right. I'm sorry, I assumed void main() means D, since it's not legit C++.

C++ allows implementation-defined return type of main.

On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 07:42:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 15:54:04 UTC, krzaq wrote:
>> Oh, right. I'm sorry, I assumed void main() means D, since it's not legit C++.
>
> C++ allows implementation-defined return type of main.

I'm afraid that you've mistaken C++ for C. The C++ standard quite clearly says:
> An implementation shall not predefine the main function. This function shall not be overloaded. **It shall have a return type of type int**, but otherwise its type is implementation-defined.

On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 08:32:10 UTC, krzaq wrote:
> but otherwise its type is implementation-defined.

This.

On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 08:33:07 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 08:32:10 UTC, krzaq wrote:
>> but otherwise its type is implementation-defined.
>
> This.

I'm not sure what you're failing to understand here. It **shall* have the return type of int. The rest (as in: parameter list) is implementation defined.

Hmm... I read it as "it shall have the return type of int, but if not, then it's implementation-defined".

On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 08:38:45 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Hmm... I read it as "it shall have the return type of int, but if not, then it's implementation-defined".

In that case, I refer you to https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 15:52:33 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 14:50:21 UTC, Namal wrote:
>>
>> Can you help me show how to compile and link it together please, thank you.
>
> What platform are you on, windows, linux, osx? What c++ compiler do you use? msvc, clang, gcc?


Linux, gcc and dmd.  In my case c++ refuses to compile
if main is void.

On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 11:47:37 UTC, Namal wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 15:52:33 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 at 14:50:21 UTC, Namal wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you help me show how to compile and link it together please, thank you.
>>
>> What platform are you on, windows, linux, osx? What c++ compiler do you use? msvc, clang, gcc?
>
>
> Linux, gcc and dmd.  In my case c++ refuses to compile
> if main is void.

well then change it to the full signature ;-)

On 3/19/15 1:38 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> Hmm... I read it as "it shall have the return type of int, but if not,
> then it's implementation-defined".

"shall" is prescriptive in standardese, i.e. means "must". -- Andrei

On 2015-03-19 1:57 AM, krzaq wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 March 2015 at 08:38:45 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> Hmm... I read it as "it shall have the return type of int, but if not,
>> then it's implementation-defined".
>
> In that case, I refer you to https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

To be picky (because I live in RFCs)... RFC 2119 doesn't have anything to say about "shall".  It does have something to say about "SHALL".  The capitalization is important.