Re: windows Development

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

Ryan Orth wrote:

> Ok, I'm relatively new to GTK and I have some questions.
> I'm trying to develop applications that are mult-platformed using the GTK
> toolkit.  After much wrangling I was able to get things to compile in windows
> uinsg gcc-mingw32-msvcrt. 
>
> How do you keep that dos box from popping up when you run the program?  I'm
> guessing it has something to do with stdout and stderr but it would be nice to
> know how to do it the right way....

All Win32 binaries have a flag that identifies them as either a 
"command-line" or "Windows" application - the binary loader then creates 
the DOS window based on the setting of that flag, whether your app uses 
stdin/stdout or not.  Check the gcc docs for linker options - there's an 
option there somewhere for tagging your app as a "Windows" application 
... can't remember what it is, though :)

HTH,
Tim Shead