Maybe someone forgot -mwindows?

[iahung3]

Description / Steps to reproduce the issue

evince.exe and geany.exe always come with a command prompt window

Expected behavior

They are graphical application. There should be no command prompt window

Actual behavior

There is always a command prompt window when open these applications

Verification

• I have verified that my MSYS2 is up-to-date before submitting the report (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/updating/)

Windows Version

MINGW64_NT-10.0-19045

MINGW environments affected

• MINGW64
• MINGW32
• UCRT64
• CLANG64
• CLANG32
• CLANGARM64

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No

[Kreijstal]

You can just call & at the end of the command, if it annoys you having to do that just do a bash shim that does it for you

[iahung3]

You can just call & at the end of the command, if it annoys you having to do that just do a bash shim that does it for you

I don't launch them from MSYS2 shell. I clicked into the binaries directly.

[Biswa96]

I have fixed this issue locally by adding win_subsystem: 'windows' in meson file and try to upstream the changes first.

[Biswa96]

This upstream pull request will fix the issue geany/geany#3811

[ognevny]

This upstream pull request will fix the issue geany/geany#3811

I think you can backport it now. in case they don't accept just create the patch file with these change (or edit existing patch for meson.build)

[Biswa96]

I shall wait for some time. Also, there are two changes needed - adding resource file and /s/WIN32/_WIN32 in ctags.

[ognevny]

I shall wait for some time. Also, there are two changes needed - adding resource file and /s/WIN32/_WIN32 in ctags.

currently meson.build is patched to define WIN32

[Biswa96]

currently meson.build is patched to define WIN32

I meant to upstream the change first. Also, that is a workaround != fix.

[iahung3]

@Biswa96 You forgot evince.exe: #19723 (console window popup), #20537 (missing icon). gedit.exe doesn't have a console window popup but it's also missing icon: #20526

[Biswa96]

See the comment in gedit thread. Those need more work in upstream.