Re: how to prevent the console window poping out when running gtkmm app in windows vista?

[Christopher Harvey <chris basementcode com>]

did you ever get one of those ugly popup console windows?
using winmain prevents this. It tells windows "I'm going to build a
windowed application, not a console app."
No other difference as far as I can tell.

Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 01:36 -0400, Paul Richards wrote:
>   
>> If you compile a non-console app, you'll also need to define WinMain like I do below:
>>
>> #if defined(WIN32) || defined (_WIN32) || defined(WIN64) || defined(_WIN64)
>> namespace windowsh {
>> #include <windows.h>
>> int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR lpCmdline, int)
>> {
>>  // you might want to parse lpCmdline into seperate args, I'll leave that up to you
>>  char* argv[2] = { lpCmdline, NULL };
>>  return main(0, argv); // Assuming here no argruments are passed...
>> }
>> }
>> #endif
>>     
>
> What's the advantage of doing this? main() seems to work equally well as
> entry point for the few programs I build on Windows.
>
> Armin
>
>   
>> ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------
>> Subject : Re: how to prevent the console window poping out when running gtkmm app in windows vista?
>> Date : Fri, 01 May 2009 10:00:31 -0500
>> >From : Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org>
>> To : 明覺 <shi minjue gmail com>
>> Cc : gtkmm-list gnome org
>>
>> 明覺 wrote: 
>>     
>>> I installed gtkmm and minWG in windows vista, and compiled a sample 
>>> gtkmm app successfully, it also runs successfully, but the problem is 
>>> it also pops out a console window with it, how to disable the console 
>>> window? thanks. 
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't program on windows, but if I remember correctly, you have to compile (or link?) 
>> with the -mwindows option or something like that. 
>>
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