[Mingw-users] Mouse cursor in full-screen mode when running make under cmd.exe

[Kevin S. <ks...@ez...>]

Hello,

I've been using MinGW for a little over a year, and it's been
working great.  I mostly use CMD.EXE (of Windows XP) as my shell,
running make and gcc (C language) to compile my own software,
and mostly in full-screen display mode (80x25).  One oddball
thing that I've always noticed is that while make or any of its
subsidiary programs are running, a mouse cursor is activated on
the text screen, shown as a character cell in inverse video,
initially in the upper left corner of the screen when starting up
make, and which then follows any mouse movements.  This doesn't
ever seem to happen at any time except while make is running, and
fortunately it doesn't happen while running my own programs that
I've compiled with gcc, so it's not really a problem.  But why
does it happen?  What is the piece of software making this mouse
cursor appear?  Is there a configuration setting available to
insure that it's always disabled, or at least disabled when in
full-screen mode?

Kevin Scott