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

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> From: Kevin Scott <ks...@ez...>
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:30:30 -0400
> 
> 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?

What does "make --version" (or maybe it's "mingw32-make --version" in
your case) say, and where did you get the binary?