{"id":469,"date":"2024-03-29T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:44:55","slug":"running-windows-exe-in-the-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/running-windows-exe-in-the-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Windows EXE in the Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If coding in Python, running an EXE in the background, unattached to a console is easily accomplished with PyInstaller’s -w<\/b> option.\u00a0 But what if you are coding in C?\u00a0 I know, who in their right mind codes in the C’s?\u00a0 Well, on occasion, I still do because I’m old and learned C first, like 35 years ago or whatever it has been now.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So how to make the EXE run in the background with C?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 Don’t use a main function.\u00a0 Use a wWinMain function!\u00a0<\/p>

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If coding in Python, running an EXE in the background, unattached to a console is easily accomplished with PyInstaller’s -w option.\u00a0 But what if you are coding in C?\u00a0 I know, who in their right mind codes in the C’s?\u00a0 Well, on occasion, I still do because I’m old and learned C first, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offensivepython.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}