Re: [open-cobol-list] My getting started document

[David Essex]

It is a quick way to convert a console (C: main ...) to a winapi (C: 
APIENTRY WinMain ...) application without having to write a 'WinMain'.

The advantage of this method is that winapi application does not 
automatically open a console when the IE icon is double clicked.
The disadvantage is that the 'Accept/Display' (stdin/stdout/stderr) are 
suppressed.
No idea how a CURSES call would be handled by wind*ws.

It is a GCC MinGW/Cygw*n link option.
So in theory, from the OC command line, it should be '-Wl,-mwindows'. 
But that does not work, so you have separate the steps.

cobc -c -x wprog03.cob
gcc -mwindows -o tgui02c.exe wprog03.o ... -lcomctl32 -luser32


Bill Klein wrote:
> Does the -mwindows option apply to when you do an OC compile (for
> Accept/Display" stuff or to how you start Cygwin or where?