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Hide console on Windows with app running SDL2
May 28
bauss
May 28
bauss
May 28

Running into a couple of problems trying to hide the console that opens when running an app that uses sdl2.

First of all I am trying to compile with this using dub:

"lflags": ["/SUBSYSTEM:windows"]

However that gives me the following error:

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol WinMain

And then if I add a WinMain like below:

extern (Windows) int WinMain() { return 0; }

Then of course it doesn't work, but what is the obvious way to solve this?

I basically just want to hide the console, but nothing seems to work straight out of the box.

May 28

On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 12:35:42 UTC, bauss wrote:

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Running into a couple of problems trying to hide the console that opens when running an app that uses sdl2.

First of all I am trying to compile with this using dub:

"lflags": ["/SUBSYSTEM:windows"]

However that gives me the following error:

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol WinMain

And then if I add a WinMain like below:

extern (Windows) int WinMain() { return 0; }

Then of course it doesn't work, but what is the obvious way to solve this?

I basically just want to hide the console, but nothing seems to work straight out of the box.

I think this is still relevant: https://wiki.dlang.org/D_for_Win32

-Steve

May 28

On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 12:45:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

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On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 12:35:42 UTC, bauss wrote:

>

Running into a couple of problems trying to hide the console that opens when running an app that uses sdl2.

First of all I am trying to compile with this using dub:

"lflags": ["/SUBSYSTEM:windows"]

However that gives me the following error:

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol WinMain

And then if I add a WinMain like below:

extern (Windows) int WinMain() { return 0; }

Then of course it doesn't work, but what is the obvious way to solve this?

I basically just want to hide the console, but nothing seems to work straight out of the box.

I think this is still relevant: https://wiki.dlang.org/D_for_Win32

-Steve

Thanks a lot, that helped and solved the issue