Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari debug mode

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 17/08/2025 à 18:18, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 17.8.2025 19.04, Christian Zietz wrote:
> > Nicolas Pomarède schrieb:
> > > As there's no "one solution fits all" for this problem of console vs GUI
> > > app vs "-W" switch, maybe we should decide if we provide 2 64 bit
> > > binaries (console and gui) to cover most usage and drop the 32 bit 
> > > version.
> >
> > This sounds like a suitable way forward.
> >
> > Yet, for the *GUI* version, I still find that Eero's patch makes 
> > sense. If someone presses AltGr+Pause, they would expect the debugger 
> > to pop up, and for that a console window needs to be opened. (If it 
> > wasn't already done with the "-W" switch.)
>
> Was there some way to detect whether code is compiled as Windows console 
> program or GUI application, or do those builds need to use some define 
> to differentiate them?
>
> So that Windows GUI version would force the separate console window, but 
> in the Windows console version they would be no-ops (like is the case on 
> every other platform)?

Hi

looking at Vincent's mail a few days ago, I'm not sure it's possible to 
detect this, but maybe I misread (or perh there's a more convoluted 
method by testing some Windows' only properties for file handles 1 and 2)


Nicolas