"WinMain"

[arfgh]

i removed the extern, and the same happends...

[Avalanche]

I just use a define to tie into whether I am compiling in DEBUG or RELEASE modes in VisualStudio. It's then "automatic" and I get the best of both worlds:

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#ifdef _DEBUG
int main()
#else
INT WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst,HINSTANCE,LPSTR strCmdLine,INT)
#endif
{
	HANDLE ExistingGameMutex = OpenMutex(MUTEX_ALL_ACCESS, FALSE, "uniquegamenamehere"); 
	
	if(ExistingGameMutex) // Check to see if the game is currently running
	{
		CloseHandle(ExistingGameMutex);
		MessageBox(NULL, "\nPlease click OK to close this information box. Click on the running game in the task bar", "Game Already Running", MB_OK);
		return -1;
	}
	else
	{
		CreateMutex(NULL,0,"uniquegamenamehere");
		CloseHandle(ExistingGameMutex);
	}

..blah .. rest of (win)main code here as you need

}

Note the additional mutex code which is nothing to do with the methods mentioned but as I just cut and pasted from my project I thought I'd leave that in (it may be useful for someone) - basically it prevents you launching 2 or more versions of the same game at once (single instance). This is a good thing to do in case a user gets impatient and double clicks your icon 20 times or something

rgds

hi, i also did something similar to your approch on console and windows
however i noticed my game runs slower in windows , and having a console popping up is not proffesional looking

i also tried
#pragma comment(linker, "/subsystem:windows /entry:main")
but my game will shutdown when it initialized

[ck123]

how about this...
how about this...

int main()
{
// create irrlicht


HWND wnd = GetConsoleWindow();
ShowWindow(wnd, SW_HIDE);

// run irrlicht stuff
}


I think GetConsoleWindow was a part of windows.h but not sure off hand.

[Acki]

Hmmm, I'm using C::B and the only thing I change is the project type to "GUI application" and using the normal int main() or int main(int argc, char** argv), and it works with no problems (no need to use WinMain) !?!?!