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From: "Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com>
Subject: Re: ada and gtkada: dos window
Date: 2000/10/15
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"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
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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");
>


This advice is correct but I prefer to put things like this in a build
script/makefile since when this
program is moved to Linux or some other non Win32 environment the -mwindows
will need to be removed.