Re: g_spawn*() on windows

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

I get it. Did you add the -mwindows flag when linking your exe?

Vivien


On 3 July 2014 15:33, <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Vivien,
>
> Yes, I'm doing that. It all works and I can capture stdout and stderr
> from the convert.exe I'm running, it's just that I get a very annoying
> command window flash on the screen each time.
>
> If anyone has any ideas about the command window, I'm all ears :-(
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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> On 3 July 2014 14:26, Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > From memory you need a copy the gspawn-win32-helper.exe executable (in
> your
> > %PATH% I guess).
> > Regards,
> > Vivien
> >
> >
> > On 3 July 2014 14:25, <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm using g_spawn_command_line_sync() to run a series of command-line
> > > programs (actually ImageMagick's convert, if that's important).
> > >
> > > It works fine, but on Windows I get an incredibly annoying console
> > > window flash up for a fraction of a second for each command. Does
> > > anyone have any good ideas for hiding this?
> > >
> > > From a bit of reading it seems that the glib helper program might need
> > > to be changed: it uses _wspawnv() to start the command and this will
> > > (I think) always show a console window for a console program. Is this
> > > right?
> > >
> > > John
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