Win Apps

[JackFoo]

Hi, I've been thinking of rewriting lst2str into a windows app. instead of a console app.; However I have no experience with win. apps, I replaced

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int main(int argc, char *argv[])

with:

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int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)

and am now calling the argv as __argv and the same for argc, however despite these changes I can still see the console window popping up, any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. All pure C, no C++ or delphi please ;-).

Chears.

[Aezay]

I dont really know, but since there's an Image Subsystem value in the Portable Executeable Optional Header of the exe file, I would guess u have to tell the compiler that it's not a console app somehow.

This Image Subsystem value is 3 if its a console, and 2 if GUI.

[soreno]

It depends on your compiler.

You should set the subsystem to "windows" instead of "console"

With MinGW (GCC for Win32) you could link with this parameter:

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-mwindows

With MSVC++ you could paste these lines:

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//#pragma comment(linker, "/subsystem:\"console\" /entry:\"mainCRTStartup\"") 
#pragma comment(linker, "/subsystem:\"windows\" /entry:\"mainCRTStartup\"")

[soreno]

You can still use

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int main(int argc, char **argv)

when setting subsystem to "windows".

[JackFoo]

So simple, damn, I'm deeply vexed. Thanks a lot soreno, -mwindows worked like a charm!!!!

Cheers.