Re: Gtk+ and Windows

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

inra tuxfamily org writes:
> I'd like to know how to make a windows application so that console
> DOS mode is avoided.

(A Windows console window has nothing to do with DOS.)

> For the moment, it craches when linking.  It's may be due to the
> fact that I don't provide any winMain function (the general way to
> do windows apps), but this may not be the case.

Tell Visual C++ to build a GUI application, *do* provide a WinMain()
function, and in your WinMain(), do whatever you would have done in
the main() function. (Especially, for a GTK program, *don't* do any of
the generic Windows application stuff like creating windows or having
a Windows message loop. GTK handles all that.) If you need to access
the command line (argc and argv), include <stdlib.h> and use the
global variables __argc and __argv.

You probably should also tell Visual C++ to use the msvcrt runtime. I
think the IDEcalls it "multi-threaded dynamic C library" or something
like that. (Don't be afraid of the word "multi-threaded", this C
runtime is the preferred one to use also from single-threaded
programs.)

--tml