CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 223

How to prevent auto-opening console on execution in Windows?

Premise: I'm very very new to Windows programming.

So far every small program I compiled, at the moment of the execution (...double click from the GUI) opens automatically a console where it prompts the std output.

Here is a screen-shot which shows the execution of this example

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As you can see, behind the window created by the program there is a console.

Why is this happening and how to prevent it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 177

Answers (1)

user5555929
user5555929

Reputation:

Windows programs come in two subsystems: windows or console. When you start a console program, a console is automatically created (if it does not exist already). Since console is the default, you have to set the appropriate linker option /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS when building your program.

There is no fundamental difference between the two subsystems. Windows programs can create a console and console programs can create windows, so you end up with both a window and a console.

There are more subsystems but they are not relevant to your question. For more information see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fcc1zstk.aspx (also contains information about setting the linker option in Visual Studio)

Upvotes: 2

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