Windows without console

[Bill Baxter]

boyd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been working on a win32 program for D for a while now. Everything 
> is working fine except that I can't get rid of the console that always 
> pops up when the program starts.
> 
> I realised that I might have added some code that causes this, so I 
> tested it out with the example at 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/windows.html. Sadly enough I got the 
> same results. I tried adding a .def file as recommended on that page, 
> with no difference. I tried using DMD directly instead of dsss. Still 
> the same.
> 
> Any ideas as to what could be wrong here?
> 
> Cheers,
> Boyd

I have this in my dsss.conf:

	version(gui) {
	  buildflags += -L/SUBSYSTEM:windows:5
	  buildflags += -gui
         } else {
	  buildflags += -L/SUBSYSTEM:console:5
         }


Build using -version=gui and it works for me.  No console created.  But 
then the standard library throws exceptions whenever you try to output 
something.  To fix that I have this inside main.d somewhere.

version(gui) {
     pragma(msg, "Compiling GUI Version");
     static this() {
         // redefine dout,derr,dlog to prevent IO exceptions
         version(Windows) {
             std.c.stdio.freopen("Nul", "w", dout.file);
             std.c.stdio.freopen("Nul", "w", derr.file);
         }
     }
}


--bb