Re: Fwd: Annoying DOS box launching psppire

[Ben Pfaff]

Here's a snapshot with the patch applied:
        http://footstool.stanford.edu/~blp/psppire-ldflags.tar.gz

"Michel Boaventura" <address@hidden> writes:

> This is the patch. It adds LD flag options for each executable.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Darrington <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:20:41 +0800
> Subject: Re: Annoying DOS box launching psppire
> To: Michel Boaventura <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Try this patch then.
>
> You should be able to do
>
>  ./configure PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS="\"-Wl,-subsystem windows\""
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>
> If it works, then I'll check it into the stable branch.
>
> J'
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:35:46PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote:
>      Good idea. With this I guess this is solved.
>
>      On 10/20/08, John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:
>      > I suggest that the easiest solution would be for us to create a
>      > couple of variables PSPP_LDFLAGS and PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS for the
>      > convenience of people who need to pass special linker flags to one
>      > binary but not the other.
>      >
>      > Would that help?
>      >
>      > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:03:30PM -0300, Michel Boaventura wrote:
>      >      This works. Now psppire opens without the annoying DOS box. But
>      >      setting those flags on CFLAGS make also pspp to be compiled with 
> it,
>      >      so it stop works, because it needs to open on a DOS box. If those
>      >      flags don't broke anything on linux, maybe we can put it
> on makefile,
>      >      so only psppire uses it.
>      >
>      >      2008/10/17 Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:
>      >      > "Michel Boaventura" <address@hidden> writes:
>      >      >
>      >      >> Searching on mingw FAQ I've found that to remove the annoying 
> DOS
>      > box
>      >      >> who opens before psppire we need to compile it with the flag:
>      >      >> "-Wl,-subsystem,windows".
>      >      >> Where's a good place to put it on makefile?
>      >      >
>      >      > You can specify it on the configure command line:
>      >      >        ./configure LDFLAGS="-Wl,-subsystem,windows"
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