For questions concerning the "entry point" of an application or library. The entry point is a special function or location in the code where control is passed from the operating system to the program.
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Entry point to REST/HATEOAS API?
I have started designing an API and have decided to have a go at making it conform to REST/HATEOAS. What should the entry point for the API be?
It seems like a common one is GET / but from what I've read it might make more sense logically to use…

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Why do we give ORG 7C00 at the start of a boot program?
The bootloader will anyway load it at that address? Why specify this to the program?

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About the entry point of PE in Windows
Is it always at the lowest address of code section?

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How do I compile a module without an EntryPoint?
I have a utility module for GWT which doesn't have an UI (hence, there is no class which inherits from com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint. When I try to compile this module with GWT 1.7.1, I get this error:
[ERROR] Module has no entry points…

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C# Only one compilation unit can have top-level statements
I just started learning c#, I created C# console application. To understand the concepts, I watched videos of how to setup vs code for c#
When I run the dotnet new console command in VS code terminal, it creates a new project including Program.cs…

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How to define an optional entry point into custom Mac OS X framework / dynamic library?
In Windows there is a DllMain and DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH / DLL_PROCESS_DETACH flags, which allow to initialize / free resources after DLL is attached to a process... So how can I specify an entry point in case of OS X? As always, I can't find anything…

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How are entrypoints of the Python standard library registered?
Regular Python packages register entrypoints in their setup.py or specify them in a pyporject.toml file. The latter is the case, if they don't use distutils/setuptools for packaging. As an example, setuptools' own setup.py has this as one of the…

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How to start a custom RQ worker within a Docker Container (Python, Flask and Redis)
I followed the excellent Flask Mega Tutorial by Miguel Grinberg and have successfully setup a Flask web app with a Redis task queue and RQ workers, all in Docker containers.
To improve task queue performance, I now need to use my own custom worker,…

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How to find the entry point in javascript application
How can we find the very first javascript statement that gets executed in any web page.. I mean how can we find the entry point for any javascript application no matter what type of JS libraries / frameworks it uses?

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Set App Entry point programmatically in AppDelegate
In my appdelegate I want to check if globUs.hasName. If it does I want the Entry Point of the app to be my main storyboard. If it does not I want the Entry Point of the app to be my newUser storyboard. How do I set the entry point of the app? If…

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Determine load address and entry point of stripped Linux Kernel image
I have a crosscompiling toolchain for an embedded system (mipsel) on my x86 Linux. I know how to build a custom kernel (let's call the image "vmlinux") for it and how to strip that image via
objcopy -S -O binary vmlinux vmlinux.bin
For further…

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setuptools entry_points. Installing executable to /usr/sbin
I have a setup.py script, that has entry_points defined like this:
entry_points = {
'console_scripts': [
'gun = gun.sync:main'
]
},
This installs the executable into /usr/bin. Is…

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Best directory structure for a repository with several python entry points and internal dependencies?
I'm working on a project with the following directory structure:
project/
package1/
module1.py
module2.py
package2/
module1.py
module2.py
main1.py
main2.py
main3.py
...
mainN.py
where each…

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Makefile entrypoint not found
I have installed vscode, but this message always opens (bottom right in the picture). I have attached a screenshot for you. Anyone know how I can fix this?

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npm packaging without an entry point
I plan to publish a JavaScript library as an npm package and I have a question regarding packages entry points and best practices: what would be the best practice when a package doesn't expose a single entry point?
Explicitly declare exports…

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