[fpc-pascal]Suppressing the console window in Win32
Peter Vreman
peter at freepascal.org
Thu Mar 4 08:40:15 CET 2004
> Thanks. I've never had to use that in Delphi since it defaults to GUI if
> there is no $APPTYPE directive. Would it make sense for FPC to default to
> GUI if compiled in Delphi compatibility mode? I'm new to FPC so I don't
> know if that has been discussed before.
That is a Win32 (maybe also MacOSX?) only issue. On other platforms the
default is to have a console.
> Incidentally, can there be a warning printed out when the $APPTYPE
> directive
> is in the wrong place and has no effect?
It already gives a warning:
p.pp(4,2) Warning: Misplaced global compiler switch
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