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raouls · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

I managed to get GTK+ applications to compile with Visual Studio Express 2005 on Windows, but there is always a command prompt in the background when I run an application. I know that it doesn't have to be that way, as the GIMP and Pidgin run just fine without a command prompt in the background; anyone know how to get rid of it, either in my code or by recompiling GTK+ some other way? I'm just using the pre-compiled GTK+ right now.

Micah Carrick · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

When compiling Win32 GTK+ applications using gcc, the -mwindows option will disable the command prompt thing. I'm assuming there is something similar (or that might even work) for Visual Studio.

raouls · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

I managed to get my program to compile in gcc too (with mingw, not cygwin). Tried it with -mwindows, and it has the same problem. I tried to replace main() with WinMain(), but the program wouldn't link, saying that main() wasn't found. Looking at the source code of Pidgin, I noticed that their Win32 version has a WinMain() and not a main(). Making just a simple Windows API program (just linking to user32.dll and the kernel, nothing else), compiling with gcc without -mwindows works just fine.

I'm more confused than ever on what the solution is, but now hopefully the problem is more well-defined.