make g++ use main as entry point instead of winmain

Question

I'm pretty new to this stuff, and solutions from similar threads aren't working for me, so I'm asking again with my specific problem

I'm trying to compile a C++ program with a main() function on windows OS. So I used g++ -std=c++11 -o hw2 *.cpp

but I get this error when trying to compile

bin/ld.exe: c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/9.2.0/../../../../x86_64-
w64-mingw32/lib/../lib/libmingw32.a(lib64_libmingw32_a-crt0_c.o): in function `m
ain':
C:\temp\gcc\build-mingw-w64\mingw-w64-crt/../../src/mingw-w64-crt/crt/crt0_c.c:1
8: undefined reference to `WinMain'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [all] Error 1

neither -mwindows or -mconsole flags solved this