How to hide the console window of a C program?

Question

I\'ve been looking around but I couldn\'t find the solution to my problem, even with some supposedly solved problems that resemble mine.

I want to hide the console w

Answer 1

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#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500

(which is needed to use GetConsoleWindow - see the documentation) must be before

#include 

That #define is used by windows.h to know which version of Windows you are targeting (and thus which declarations it has to provide/which additional fields it has to add to structures/other magic that may be related to that linker error); if you define it after you include windows.h it will be useless.