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.TH "al_run_main" "3" "" "Allegro reference manual" ""
.SH NAME
al_run_main \- Allegro 5 API
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IP
.EX
#include \f[B]<allegro5/allegro.h>\f[R]

int al_run_main(int argc, char **argv, int (*user_main)(int, char **))
.EE
.SH DESCRIPTION
This function is useful in cases where you don\[cq]t have a main()
function but want to run Allegro (mostly useful in a wrapper library).
Under Windows and Linux this is no problem because you simply can call
al_install_system(3).
But some other system (like OSX) don\[cq]t allow calling
al_install_system(3) in the main thread.
al_run_main will know what to do in that case.
.PP
The passed argc and argv will simply be passed on to user_main and the
return value of user_main will be returned.