[CMake] Program with Qt opening with a bash screen on windows before showing the gui...

[Ben Medina]

Qt also provides qtmain.lib to resolve the need for WinMain, in case
you run into that linker error.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:26 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Renato Utsch <renatoutsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello CMake guys...
>>
>> Well, I was writing a portable program using CMake that uses Qt as it's GUI
>> framework...
>>
>> I compiled it on linux and it worked really well, no problems. But when
>> compiling on Windows, the program opened a blank bash screen before opening
>> the proper gui. I thought that this could be with Qt itself, but when I
>> tried with qmake, the program runned normally, without any bash screen
>> opening...
>>
>> I used the Visual C++ Express 2008 to compile, with Qt libraries 4.7.4 for
>> the Visual 2008. Here is the CMakeLists.txt:
>>
>> project(test CXX)
>> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
>> find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED)
>> include(${QT_USE_FILE})
>> set(test_SRCS
>>     main.cpp
>>     MainWindow.cpp
>> )
>> set(test_MOC_SRCS
>>     MainWindow.hpp
>> )
>>
>> set(test_RCCS
>>     rc.qrc
>> )
>> qt4_wrap_cpp(test_MOCS ${test_MOC_SRCS})
>> qt4_add_resources(test_RCC_SRCS ${test_RCCS})
>> add_definitions(-DQT_NO_DEBUG)
>> add_executable(test
>>     ${test_SRCS}
>>     ${test_MOCS}
>>     ${test_RCC_SRCS})
>> target_link_libraries(test ${QT_LIBRARIES})
>>
>> If there is any solution to this I would be very grateful, because I really
>> want to use CMake.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Renato
>>
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> Add the WIN32 argument to add_executable to tell it it's a Windows app
> and not a console app.
>
> Like this:
>
> add_executable(test WIN32
>    ${test_SRCS}
>    ${test_MOCS}
>    ${test_RCC_SRCS})
>
>
> HTH,
> David
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