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Subject: Re: Xemacs/cygwin 21.4.3 and new console window during compilation
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From: Dmitry Bely <dbely AT mail DOT ru>
Date: 18 Dec 2001 11:11:10 +0300
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Andy Piper <andy AT xemacs DOT org> writes:

> So my supposition is that a console window is created because XEmacs
> doesn't have one by default when started from the desktop.

Why then MSVC-compiled XEmacs does not popup new console in the same
situation? It also seems not to have one by default ...

> The reason
> it works in bash is that children inherit their parent's console by
> default and somewhere up the foodchain cygwin has a console. I have no
> idea how we could fix this. I imagine that if we do AllocConsole in
> the cygwin version of XEmacs that whilst this may stop your program
> creating a console we will get an ugly console popping up for XEmacs
> as a whole. Maybe this is acceptable, I don't know. I'm CC'ing ben and
> the cygwin list to see if any windows gurus have any great ideas on
> this score.
> 
> 
> andy

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry



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