Re: [Msys2-users] Starting an application on Windows

[Óscar F. <of...@wa...>]

Bill Lee <Bi...@WR...> writes:

> Perhaps this isn't the correct place to ask, but since my application is 
> developed under msys2, I will ask here to start.
>
> I am developing an application that uses ncurses for screen management. 
> The intent is to ultimately have a program that a Windows user can click 
> on (like any other Windows application), have the application open the 
> window where it executes, etc.
>
> This seems to be working just fine except: I get a small console window 
> also opened, followed by the ncurses window. The small console window 
> sticks around until the application is finished running and then disappears.
>
> What I want to do is do away with the (seeming) extraneous small window. 
> And since I know very little (essentially zero) about how Windows works, 
> perhaps someone could give me some insight about what's going on and 
> what I can do about it.

After 10 seconds of Googling, I found this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4441551/how-to-stop-mingw-g-opening-a-console-window-in-windows