If this is used, the runtime expects that wmain() instead of main() is defined. This caused me severe problems in a certain now irrelevant case. I think it's a good idea to avoid this special case. We can just use main() and call GetCommandLineW() instead. This function returns a single string, so use CommandLineToArgvW() to split it, and hope it has the same semantics. Should this ever return NULL, hope that it leaves argc at 0. Untested, I think.