About

This is a small program for Windows to run console applications with the console window initially hidden. This avoids the quick flash of console window normally associated with hiding the window, without removing the window entirely (it can be restored at any time with ShowWindow).

noconsole is primarily useful for applications that have a GUI but open a console window anyway (saved Lisp images, for example). GUI applications should also work normally, though noconsole won’t really do anything useful.

Usage

noconsole.exe <program_name> [<args>...]

Building

Using the MSVC compiler:

cl.exe noconsole.c

Using MinGW, something like:

gcc -o noconsole noconsole.c -static