Can't run this simple program. Is the code to blame, or my VC++?

[zensunni]

Here's the simple code:

#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
MessageBox(NULL, "Goodbye, cruel world!", "Note", MB_OK);
return 0;
}

I chose Win32 application and chose "windows application", not "console application". Is the program at fault, or did I do something wrong when setting up my vc++ compiler for Win32?

Actually, here's the turorial I'm following:
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/start.html

and the error I get is this:
error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [22]' to 'LPCWSTR'

Thanks for any help.

[zensunni]

Found the answer. I was using Unicode instead of Multibyte.

[weaknessforcats]

Are you using tchar.h???

Then you should:

#include <windows.h>
 
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, 
LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
MessageBox(NULL, TEXT("Goodbye, cruel world!"), TEXT("Note"), MB_OK);
return 0;
}
 

Do not use MessageBoxW directly.

MessageBox is a macro that resolves to MessageBoxA or MessageBoxW depending on whether Unicode is defined or not.

Read this.