MinGW, build GUI application with console

Question

I\'m using MinGW to build my application on Windows. When compiling and linking, the option \"-mwindows\" is put in command line to have Win32 API functions.

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Answer 1

I have no evidence for this answer, only a bit of experiments that were successful. If I have a hello app, like this:

#include 
#include 

int main(void)
{
    puts("hi");
    MessageBox(NULL, "test", "test", NULL);
    GetStockObject(0);
    return 0;
}

I cannot compile it with -mconsole, because linker complains about GetStockObject. But when I add the necessary library with -lgdi32 switch on my command line, the app compiles and executes cleanly. Maybe this is the way to keep both console and gdi. This is the command line:

gcc -mconsole test_gdi.c -lgdi32