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Switching the Subsystem from /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE to /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS (per http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=3553&highlight=console ) does make the console window not show up, but it causes a crash in SDL_Win32_main.c's int console_main(int argc, char *argv[]); .  The problem is that the function assumes argv is a valid array of char*'s, and tries to access it; but argv is the NULL pointer.

This can be repaired with an if statement; see below.  I have verified that it works with /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE and with /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS, but there may be something else I'm not thinking of.


int console_main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	size_t n;
	char *bufp, *appname;
	int status;

	if (argc) //THIS if STATEMENT IS THE BUG FIX IN QUESTION
	{
		/* Get the class name from argv[0] */
		appname = argv[0];
		if ( (bufp=SDL_strrchr(argv[0], '\\')) != NULL ) {
			appname = bufp+1;
		} else
		if ( (bufp=SDL_strrchr(argv[0], '/')) != NULL ) {
			appname = bufp+1;
		}

		if ( (bufp=SDL_strrchr(appname, '.')) == NULL )
			n = SDL_strlen(appname);
		else
			n = (bufp-appname);

		bufp = SDL_stack_alloc(char, n+1);
		if ( bufp == NULL ) {
			return OutOfMemory();
		}
		SDL_strlcpy(bufp, appname, n+1);
		appname = bufp;
	}

	/* Load SDL dynamic link library */

        ...and so on...
}