On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 11:17:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
I have to say though, requiring additional linker arguments is pretty lame.
They aren't really required, the program will work without them, the linker argument tells the operating system not to allocate a console for this process.
That's not always wanted; I like having a console for printf debugging even with a gui.
But on my system, I made a separate little script that adds the linker argument so I don't type it out often when I want that. You might consider doing the same.
BTW I think dmd should have more linker pragmas though. I wouldn't mind a pragma(windows_subsystem, "windows") as well as things like pragma(manifest, "<some xml>") or pragma(resource) or pragma(module_definition) and so on. But eh I can see the arguments against these too.
