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Hi all,
I'm porting my GTK application to Windows (MinGW with gcc), and am
finding it impossible to get rid of the DOS box windows console that
appears when the program is launched.
Seen lots of posts recommending using the -mwindows flag, and
Justin Clift writes:
Seen lots of posts recommending using the -mwindows flag,
Yes, that definitely is what you should do...
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Hello Justin.
AFAIK the .exe header has a flag that tells if a program is a
console or a windowed program, so I guess you should try to specify the
-mwindows flag on the linking process instead of the compiling one
because the linker is what generates the .exe file and has control over
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 22:49 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
... but you don't use it in the linking phase, which is when it is
needed.
You can also change the executable type after the fact using the
exetype.pl program found at
http://www.devdaily.com/scw/perl/perl-5.8.5/win32/bin/exetype.pl.shtml
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Tor Lillqvist wrote:
Justin Clift writes:
Seen lots of posts recommending using the -mwindows flag,
Yes, that definitely is what you should do...
Invoking: GCC C Linker
gcc -Lc:/MinGW/lib -Lc:/MinGW/libxml2-2.6.23.win32/lib
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Ivan Baldo wrote:
Hello Justin.
AFAIK the .exe header has a flag that tells if a program is a console
or a windowed program, so I guess you should try to specify the
-mwindows flag on the linking process instead of the compiling one
because
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Michael Torrie wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 22:49 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
... but you don't use it in the linking phase, which is when it is
needed.
You can also change the executable type after the fact using the
exetype.pl program found
