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The two stars should have been a big tip : )

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...

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)...

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.
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