That's what I thought he might mean, what's the difference between running a program that way and just double clicking on the .exe?
Anyway, I still get the same problem.
As a point of interest. I can run the SDL programs from your site, dwks. However when I try to run them from another computer, I get exactly the same problem (window flashes open then closes immediately), despite all the correct .dll files being on the computer.
Might this suggest that the problem is not specifically with my programs, but something more general? It seems that my computer, on which I've developed an SDL app, likes SDL apps just fine. But other computers don't seem to like them so much