Console when compiling in VC6.0

SDL Development
1

Hi all.

I’m using SDL 1.1.3 in Win2000. How do I get rid of the console
that gets opened when I start my program? It’s nice for debugging
whith printf, but its of no use in production quality programs!

It gets opened no matter how I start my program(from explorer and
from inside VC++)

Thomas

2

You are probably creating a Console based application. Instead create a
Win32 Application and include SDLMain.lib.

-Ryan

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news:20000829213653.GIJG1171.fepF.post.tele.dk at proxyplus.universe…> Hi all.

I’m using SDL 1.1.3 in Win2000. How do I get rid of the console
that gets opened when I start my program? It’s nice for debugging
whith printf, but its of no use in production quality programs!

It gets opened no matter how I start my program(from explorer and
from inside VC++)

Thomas

3

tts at image.dk wrote:

Hi all.

I’m using SDL 1.1.3 in Win2000. How do I get rid of the console
that gets opened when I start my program? It’s nice for debugging
whith printf, but its of no use in production quality programs!

It gets opened no matter how I start my program(from explorer and
from inside VC++)

Thomas

you need to tell VC5 to produce a GUI app, rather than a console app.

4

specify the following linker options when compiling a release version:
/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup
this way you can still write portable code with a normal main function and
keep the console window when debugging.
Regards
Lars

wrote in message
news:20000829213653.GIJG1171.fepF.post.tele.dk at proxyplus.universe…> Hi all.

I’m using SDL 1.1.3 in Win2000. How do I get rid of the console
that gets opened when I start my program? It’s nice for debugging
whith printf, but its of no use in production quality programs!

It gets opened no matter how I start my program(from explorer and
from inside VC++)

Thomas