For some reason when I compile my Win32 app with gcc and run the program, a console window is created before the application's GUI is displayed.
If I close the console, the entire window closes.
If I close the application via GUI, the console window also closes.
In task manager, only one program is listed in the "Processes" tab. But in "Applications" there is one entry for the console, and one for the windowed app.
I don't know why this is happening, but I want it to stop. Help!
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3...11/50/1984911/ is something I found on a quick search withGoogle for a windows compiler switch with GCC. If you scroll down a little, someone says that they patched a byte in a header file to get a true GUI app.
Other than that, I don't suggest compiling windows apps under GCC, try getting the Dev-C++ compiler. It's free, has a fairly nice GUI, and compiles windows apps normally.
DOH
I just did another search, and found a Cygwin page saying you should use the -mwindows parameter with gcc.
I didn't find this in the GNU GCC documentation because it is (with good reason) specific to the win32 port of gcc.
Just add -mwindows
gcc -mwindows -o myfile.exe myfile.c
and notice that Dev-C++ is an IDE which comes with gcc.
Right now I'm using:
mingw32 (includes gcc, binutils, win32 api headers, etc)
with EditPlus2
EditPlus is a really awesome editor. You can use it for pretty much any language, and customize it to run different programs with different parameters (like running windres on one file, gcc -c the open file, etc)
You can customize pretty much everything about it and the interface is top notch.
www.editplus.com
