Re: [Mingw-users] Confusion about the difference between GCC and VC6

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

The same happens also with MSVC6 if you build your program as a
console executable, which is the default if it has a main(). You must
be using the linker option /subsystem:windows without realizing.

(Or then your program has a WinMain() but not a main(), in which case
MSVC is "clever" enough to guess you want it to be produce a so-called
GUI executable and not a so-called console executable. MinGW does not
do this, you need to explicitly specify the -mwindows option to get a
"GUI executable".)

(Note that the terms "GUI executable" vs. "console executable" are
somewhat misleading. It's just a single flag in the executable header.
It has no impact on what the program actually can do. There is nothing
that forces a GUI executable to actually have a GUI, there is nothing
that prevents a console executable from having a GUI, etc.)

--tml