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user10191234

Reputation: 637

Hide console windows in C++ Builder

I am using Embarcadero C++ 10.2 ‘Tokyo’ command line Compiler as a small footprint compiler, it is distributed in a compressed form and easily 'portable'.

I am trying to implement this small Close Tray program using Win32 API.

#include <windows.h>

int main()
{
  mciSendString("Set CDAudio Door Closed Wait", 0, 0, 0); 
  return 0;
}

Compiling it using bcc32c Close.cpp works fine but the console window appears as it should when the executable is double clicked. Is there a way to cancel its presence like the /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS that is used with Microsoft compiler.

Update: For instance in order to do that in Digital Mars, I compile the source file using sc source.c then use its linker Optlink like that

link source.obj,,,winmm.lib /subsystem:windows

because compiling it isn't enough in Digital Mars, it needs linking to winmm.lib while Embarcadero's compiler does that automatically.

Update 2: I also saw an option -tW to make the taget executable for Windows but it didn't work so is using bcc32x -mwindows since it is based on Clang and still didn't get the result needed.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 830

Answers (1)

Baxter
Baxter

Reputation: 126

You might try

#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, 
               LPSTR lpCmdLine, int CmdShow) {
               
  mciSendString("Set CDAudio Door Closed Wait", 0, 0, 0);

  
  return 0;
}

On command line compiler it compiles with

bcc32 -W winmain.c

I don't know if the switch works on your compiler.

Update: The WinMain parameters can be omitted if not needed.

int WINAPI WinMain() {

Upvotes: 5

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