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Re: linking confusion
- To: "Jenny Gable (Skywind)" <jgable at imsa dot edu>
- Subject: Re: linking confusion
- From: David Fox <fox at cat dot nyu dot edu>
- Date: 12 May 1998 17:56:18 -0400
- Cc: Cygnus GNU Win32 Mailing List <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980511232708.17936A-100000@coke>
"Jenny Gable (Skywind)" <jgable@imsa.edu> writes:
> I'm having trouble with linking (first program, using example code), and
> found in the docs,
>
> "The regular setup allows you to use the option -mwindows on the command
> line to include a set of the basic libraries (and also make your program
> a GUI program instead of a console program), including user32, gdi32
> and, IIRC, comdlg32."
>
> So says the documentation, but gcc and ld both complain that -mwindows
> isn't a valid option. So what command line is this talking about?
It works when you are linking, but only when you are linking - no .c
files allowed, just .o and .a.
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