I'm absolutely stuck on Windows building #Gtk GResource source into a CPP project.

Is anyone an expert?

The problem is that including the code causes MINGW gcc linker to delete the entire of the rest of the project except for the gresource souce, so it obviously won't link with everything missing.

I have no idea why gnu would choose to destroy everything. I would have preferred a build error.

(it doesn't help I don't have a windows machine)

Help me fedi, you're my only hope!