How to Use ROOT under Windows NT ?

1. In order to not show console window at startup, add

   /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup

   to the link options, as, i.e :

   LDOPT = -opt:ref /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup

   but only when creating executable (not DLLs or libs).


2. To add win32 icon(s) to the executable, add this to makefile :

   ...
   YOURAPPRC  := yourapp.rc  
   YOURAPPRES := yourapp.res
   ...
   $(YOURAPPRES): $(YOURAPPRC)
        rc -DBUILDNUMBER=0 -r -fo $(YOURAPPRES) $(YOURAPPRC)
        $(YOURAPP) : $(YOURAPPO) $(YOURAPPRES)
        $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $^ $(GLIBS) $(OutPutOpt)$@
        @echo "$@ done"

   with yourapp.rc containing :

        #include <winver.h>
        YOURAPP_ICON  ICON "youricon.ico"
        YOURAPP_ICON2 ICON "youricon2.ico"
        YOURAPP_ICON3 ICON "youricon3.ico"
        ...

   This allows to associate icon to executable, visible in windows explorer, and when creating shortcut on desktop.

See also Axel Naumann's site at: http://www.muenster.de/~naumana/root.html
and François-Xavier Gentit's site at:http://gentit.home.cern.ch/gentit/rootandvisual7/