Re: Command Window with MSVC++ GTK apps

["Alan M. Evans" <ame1 extratech com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 16:19, Christopher Backhouse wrote:
> Lots of my code has this at the top of it
>
> #pragma comment(linker, "/subsystem:\"windows\" 
> /entry:\"mainCRTStartup\"")  //Kill console window
>
> I got it off the internet somewhere.
> I assume the unrecognised pragma will be ignored by every other compiler 
> out there so it should be "portable" (if a little ugly)
> Is it possible to just add the string in this command somewhere into the 
> link options?

That's it! The voodoo was in the name of the entry point. As I said, I
had tried "main" but that didn't work. The actual desired entry point
was "mainCRTStartup".

So adding "/subsystem:windows /entry:mainCRTStartup" to the linker
options alters a former console app to execute without the console
window. Same effect as running "editbin /subsystem:windows" on the
console executable as described by Tor a few messages ago.