Windows server executable (as opposed to current CLI executable)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 04:08:20PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> I'd like to make the server a Windows executable, rather than a CLI
> executable, as this gets rid of the annoying command prompt window that
> opens with each server window.  I have found, built, and tested the extra
> compilation flags needed to make the server a Windows executable; simply add
> the following flags to the final link of XWin.exe:
> 
> -mwindows -e _mainCRTStartup
> 
> There are two things holding me up from committing these changes:
> 1) I don't know how to specify flags to be used only when linking the server
> executable.
> 2) stderr needs to be redirected to a file; however, it doesn't make sense
> to pursue this until (1) has been addressed.
> 
> Any help and/or tips would be appreciated,
> 
In the Xserver/Imakefile in the XWin section define this.

EXTRA_LDOPTIONS = -mwindows -e _mainCRTStartup

That should do the trick.

Alan.