Oct '24 (edited) • VALUE
How to remove the Console Window from your release exe
I asked this in the last Q&A and got a couple of breadcrumbs and spent a few mins exploring this today.
suggested adding a '-mwindows' flag to the compiler. This works when you launch the program through VSCode but unfortunately doesn't when you run the exe from a file explorer or the desktop for example.
I asked the AI and used the GoogleFu and I think I came to the conclusion that because oogabooga is by default a console app and not a windows gui app the -mwindows flag doesn't work. I tried adding a manifest file to the compiler as well as a bunch of other flags to no avail (I could be doing this wrong lol).
I think basically you just need to make the exe a windows gui app by running WinMain() instead of main(). I didn't spend the time to work out how to change this in the oogabooga files but did come across a hack.
Add something like this to your code - It's Windows specific so be aware of that.
HANDLE hConsole = GetConsoleWindow();
if (hConsole != NULL)
{
ShowWindow(hConsole, SW_HIDE);
}
The console window will spawn but will quickly be minimized and then disappear.
I believe if the program was using WinMain() you could use the -mwindows flag on your release build and -mconsole on your debug build and things would be sweet but I am not really sure. There might be other reasons to not use WinMain() that I have no idea about.
If anyone has any better solutions. Please let me know! Cheers Bell
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How to remove the Console Window from your release exe
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