From: JSONCRAIG AT aol DOT com Subject: Re: success with --subsystem,windows and all that: the definitive answer 18 Aug 1998 09:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: <995a5e01.35d8503b.cygnus.gnu-win32@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mdevos AT cis DOT co DOT za Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I had the EXACT same problems but I figured it out(before this post). For the -mwindows problem here goes:(comments in brackets) gcc -c DemoProg.cpp -o DemoProg.o[ENTER][NOTE:YOU CAN TO *.O, *.OBJ] [-C TELLS IT TO COMPILE TO AN OBJECT FILE] gcc -o DemoProg.exe DemoProg.o -mwindows[you may also manually link stuff such as comctl32, cmndlg32(for common controls and dialogs) -lcomctl32 -lcomdlg32 DO NOT, REPEAT DO NOT LINK KERNAL32 IF YOU DO -MWINDOWS!!!!!] Hope this helps, Jason - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".