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

You need to manually capture hInstance and nCmdShow (WinMain arguments). You can use the following C functions to do this:

HINSTANCE GetHInstance( ) {
   return (HINSTANCE) GetModuleHandleW(NULL);
}
    
int GetNCmdShow() {
   STARTUPINFOW startupInfo;
   GetStartupInfoW(&startupInfo);
   if ((startupInfo.dwFlags & STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW) != 0) {
      return startupInfo.wShowWindow;
   }
   return SW_SHOWDEFAULT;
}