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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:50:25 +0100
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Subject: -mwindows and --Wl,subsystem,windows
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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According to this post on the gcc mailing list a few years back, gcc's
-mwindows option should imply --Wl,subsystem,windows:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2004-01/msg00225.html

I find, however, that I'm getting different behaviour when passing
--Wl,subsystem,windows explicitly. (Without it, stdout from mintty
opens a console, but with it, the output ends up in the mintty window
itself. No idea how the latter comes about.)

What is the intended behaviour for -mwindows, and should it be used at all?

Andy

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