RE: [Bug-gnubg] Severe side effects of makebearoff

[Øystein Johansen]

>===== Original Message From Holger <address@hidden> =====

>>VERY IMPORTANT!
>>
>>Be sure you _don't_ add the -mwindows option to the compiler!
>
>This is only necessary for makebearoff/makebearoff1 or for GNUbg, too?

It's necessary for all executables that read from the stdin (console), or
writes to stdout.

In this case I think the use of stdout, (and redirection of it with > ), was
the problem since Win/dos makes different newlines than unix systems.

>I think the GNUbg executable should still be built with -mwindows, because
>else a DOS windows opens and doesn't close during program execution.

Yes, indeed I agree!

The main GUI executable does not use output or input from the console, and we
should therefore use -mwindows for the main executable. We agree, I believe.

-Øystein