Frederic Bouvier:

This patch is for windows only. It hides the console window
until there is a message to print. It only support SG_LOG,
that I think is the right way to display something in FG.

diff --git a/src/Main/bootstrap.cxx b/src/Main/bootstrap.cxx
index 6d711801b9fc31fcdb677bc5d5495ddf02ac38d9..cb14ba9a2944426c042d118463c2594caa9676d9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Main/bootstrap.cxx
+++ b/src/Main/bootstrap.cxx
@@ -101,6 +101,15 @@ extern "C" {
 
 #endif
 
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+int main ( int argc, char **argv );
+int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
+                             LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) {
+
+  main( __argc, __argv );
+}
+#endif
+
 // Main entry point; catch any exceptions that have made it this far.
 int main ( int argc, char **argv ) {