SDL with cross-mingw32 under linux / dos box

SDL Development
1

hi,

if i compile a SDL application with mingw32 under
linux and execute it on a win98 machine it works
fine, but on every startup of the application a
dos box is opened.

so it looks like a console application but it isn’t…

how do i prevend this?

btw. the application itself opens a window and
does it’s job really fine. so from my personal
view there is no need to open a dosbox…

cu
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Add -mwindows to your command line when linking the executable.

-RayOn Thursday 16 August 2001 11:10, you wrote:

hi,

if i compile a SDL application with mingw32 under
linux and execute it on a win98 machine it works
fine, but on every startup of the application a
dos box is opened.

so it looks like a console application but it isn’t…

how do i prevend this?

btw. the application itself opens a window and
does it’s job really fine. so from my personal
view there is no need to open a dosbox…

cu
rasca

3

Newsgroups: loki.open-source.sdl

hi,

if i compile a SDL application with mingw32 under
linux and execute it on a win98 machine it works
fine, but on every startup of the application a
dos box is opened.

so it looks like a console application but it isn’t…

how do i prevend this?

btw. the application itself opens a window and
does it’s job really fine. so from my personal
view there is no need to open a dosbox…

cu
rasca

A quick & nasty way to fix this is to write a small windows stib app that
calls CreateProcess() but captures all the standard IO FDs itself. Of
course, you’ll need a native Windows compiler for this (probably).

I plan on writing one in the near future (it makes porting code SO much
easier having a system like this (call GetModuleHandle() inside main() and
you have everything you need, without using the horrible WinMain() function)

Mark ‘Nurgle’ Collins
Developer Support - Codeplay Ltd.
http://www.codeplay.com

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