Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@avatar.nl>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 20:18 UTC
Message-ID: <87y7n990x9.fsf@peder.flower>
In-Reply-To: <45C9F842.3080704@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Strange, those are builtins, not?  I recall that we also had
> some issues with lilypond stdout printing things inside CMD,
> depending on whether -mwindows is on the link line.
> Details escape me, though.

> Jan?

I didn't either, but Google says

   This is a windows limitation.  GUI apps (apps created with -mwindows)
   can't send output to or receive input from the console.

That seems right, I remember that we chose to use -mwindows to get rid of the flashing black console silliness.

Greetings, Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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