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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: ada and gtkada: dos window
Date: 2000/10/15
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he window appears because you didn't tell the linker that your program
is a Windows program. To do so, requires passing the option -mwindows
to the linker.

One good way to do this is to put in your main program source code the
following pragma:

pragma Linker_Options("-mwindows");

Jesse Farmer <tujuggernaut@crosswinds.net> wrote in message
news:suifvogbtc8b09@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi
>
> I just compiled some examples of gtkada in pcgrasp w/ gnat under win98.
The
> work just fine, but I am wondering about this Dos window that pops up
behind
> the application.  Is there any way to compile an Ada program into a true
Win32
> executable?  So this DOS window won't appear?
>
> Why is this dos window appearing?  because the example compiled into a
simple
> executable?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jesse
>