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user2180977

Reputation: 411

Building non-console Windows app with Qt and cmake

I am having trouble finding out the current up-to-date method for building non-console apps using cmake, Qt5 and Visual C++ under Windows. It looks like back in the Qt4 days it was sufficient to set QT_USE_QTMAIN to true. Now supposedly it's sufficient to link Qt5::WinMain. However, neither of these is working for me - my app continues to open a console window. I also cannot find anything in either the cmake or the Qt documentation.

What's the documented/proven method to get the app to stop opening a console window?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2321

Answers (1)

vre
vre

Reputation: 6734

You need to add set_target_properties(<targetname> PROPERTIES WIN32_EXECUTABLE TRUE) to your executable target in CMakeLists.txt to let CMake generate the executable for windows without a console. This replaces the main entry point of the application with WinMain.

Upvotes: 5

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