I wanted to compile the sqlite3 shell on Windows, using my Free Embarcadero C compiler, but it didn’t work. It was quite easy to fix, but if you are affected, read on. First Attempt After unzipping the amalgamated source files a default compilation was attempted with the following command line. The -tCM option simply says to create a console based non-windows application. bcc32c -o sqlite3.exe shell.c sqlite3.c -tCM Which results in the following compiler warnings and linker errors: