Windows Build - Unnecessary cmd window

Hi there,

After following a lot of the instructions on http://www.dionysopoulos.me/blog/packaging-titanium-dekstop-apps-on-windows, I finally got a build up and running on a Windows machine with Titanium Desktop 1.1.

When I build a version of my application on Windows, this is the command I use:

E:\dev\ti\build\titanium_desktop\win32>python tibuild.py -n -o win32 -t bundle -a . -s C:\ProgramData\Titanium -d e:\dev\ti\build e:\dev\ti\build\tmp

and this is the output that I get:

[echo] Calling out to Titanium Build
    [mkdir] Created dir: E:\dev\ti\build\dist\eye-fi
     [exec] Staging Eye-Fi Center
     [exec]     -> Copying contents from E:\dev\ti\build\tmp to E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center
     [exec]     -> Copying installer from C:\ProgramData\Titanium\sdk\win32\1.1.0\installer to E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center
     [exec]     -> Copying runtime to E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiapp\1.1.0\\tiappmodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tiapp\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiapp\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tifilesystem\1.1.0\\tifilesystemmodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tifilesystem\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tifilesystem\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiplatform\1.1.0\\tiplatformmodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tiplatform\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiplatform\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiui\1.1.0\\default.css does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tiui\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiui\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\fieyehelper\1.1.0\\fieyehelpermodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\fieyehelper\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\fieyehelper\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\fieyelocale\1.1.0\\fieyelocalemodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\fieyelocale\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\fieyelocale\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\ticodec\1.1.0\\ticodecmodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\ticodec\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\ticodec\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tidatabase\1.1.0\\tidatabasemodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tidatabase\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tidatabase\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\timedia\1.1.0\\timediamodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\timedia\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\timedia\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\timonkey\1.1.0\\timonkeymodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\timonkey\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\timonkey\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tinetwork\1.1.0\\tinetworkmodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tinetwork\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tinetwork\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiprocess\1.1.0\\tiprocessmodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tiprocess\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiprocess\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiworker\1.1.0\\tiworkermodule.dll does not exist
     [exec]         -> Copying C:\ProgramData\Titanium\modules\win32\tiworker\1.1.0 ==> E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\modules\tiworker\1.1.0
     [exec]     -> Copying kboot.exe to E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center
     [exec] Version: ImageMagick 6.7.0-3 2011-05-26 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
     [exec] Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC
     [exec] Features: OpenMP   
     [exec] 
     [exec]     -> Launching: C:\ProgramData\Titanium\sdk\win32\1.1.0\ReplaceVistaIcon.exe "E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\Eye-Fi Center.exe" "E:\dev\ti\build\Eye-Fi Center\Resources\_converted_icon.ico"
     [move] Moving 889 files to E:\dev\ti\build\dist\eye-fi\Eye-Fi Center

Any time I double click on the .exe file which is produced from this build, a cmd window is opened which prints out all the log messages that I'd usually see in Titanium Developer.

Is there any way to suppress this cmd window - I don't really want to distribute an .exe file which pops up a weird cmd window.

Sean

That window should only occur when your application is run with the --debug flag. I tried to reproduce this on my Windows 7 using 1.2.0 RC1 and wasn't able it show the console window. The console window would only be shown for me when running w/ --debug.

Turns out that this was all related to how I was building the runtime. Following the instructions at http://developer.appcelerator.com/doc/desktop/building, the debug param passed in the scons command results in a runtime built in 'debug' mode which resulted in the cmd window appearing all the time. If you remove the 'debug' parameter when building the runtime from source, the cmd window goes away.