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Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:47:58PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:32:29AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>Unfortunately we need -mwindows.
>>
>>No.  We don't.  What do you think -mwindows implies?
>>
>> From the gcc spec file:
>>*link:
>> %{mwindows:--subsystem windows}   %{mconsole:--subsystem console}
>>
>>A program can only be subsystm windows or console.  It can't be both.
>>It is a bug in ld and in gcc that you are able to supply both.
>
>Thanks. I tried without -mwindows and the linker failed.
>But -mconsole is the solution.

It's still a linker bug.  You're probably just creating a console based
app that looks for WinMain as its main function.

I'll forego responding to the rest of your message since I see that you
still want to talk about setup log files and it was not my intent to
address this issue at this time.

cgf


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