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

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:41 -0400, Christopher Harvey wrote:
> did you ever get one of those ugly popup console windows?
> using winmain prevents this.

I don't think this has anything to do with WinMain. At least with MinGW,
you can simply pass the -mwindows linker flag to avoid the console
window. For MSVC, I think you can change the application type from
Console to GUI somewhere in the project properties.

>  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

> 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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