[Iup-users] Building Windows applications without console with CL?

[Johann ''Myrkraverk'' O. <joh...@wa...>]

Dear IUP Users,

How does one build an IUP application such that it doesn't pop up a
console, with CL from VS 2022?

The way I currently build a working application is with

   cl /Ic:/opt/iup/x64_dll16\include hello.c c:\opt\IUP\x64_dll16\iup.lib

where I installed the iup‑3.30_Win64_dll16_lib.zip file in the aptly
named directory c:\opt\iup\x64_dll16.  There is no manifest, resource,
or other file that suggests how to use it, included in this binary
distribution [that I noticed.]

If I add

   /link /subsystem:windows

to the above command line, I get the error

   LIBCMT.lib(exe_winmain.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external 
symbol WinMain referenced in function "int __cdecl 
__scrt_common_main_seh(void)" (?__scrt_common_main_seh@@YAHXZ)

so I suspect some additional steps are needed to build for Windows,
using the command line, but I cannot guess what.  Is this solvable
without changing the source code and use WinMain() instead of main()?


Thanks,
Johann