Re: Annoying DOS box launching psppire

[John Darrington]

Try this patch then.

You should be able to do 

 ./configure PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS="\"-Wl,-subsystem windows\""


If it works, then I'll check it into the stable branch.

J'





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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