How can I develop pure GUI wxwigets program by XCode - c++

I have create a wxwidgets program(Pure C++) , the build is success and running is OK
But when I click the program in finder, a terminal windows is popup.
How to avoid the terminal window being popup?
PS: Similiar problem is also seen in Visual Studio, and can be fixed by changing subsystem from Console to Windows
Is there a similiar configuration in Xcode?

You must make a bundle for your application under OS X. If you use Xcode, this should already be the case. If you use makefiles/command line, look at how the minimal sample included in wxWidgets distribution does it.

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Difference between 'Windows Console Application' and 'Empty Project' in VS C++

If I'm making a simple C++ program, such as connecting to a database, which option should I choose in Visual Studio 2017 as a Visual C++ template?
Windows Console Application
or
Empty Project?
Will a Windows Console Application based program run only on windows where as an empty project one will run on many OS'?
A "Window's Console Application" program has stuff added to your project to make it run smoother with the Window's command prompt. However, even if you create an "Empty Project", the compiled version will not run on another OS, by default. You will have to recompile for each OS you want to work with.
Use a console application, it will already have the main function and such in there. It is what you would use for a "hello world" program.
If you start from an empty project you're just going to have to create a similar .cpp file anyway.

Unable to run SDL program in Eclipse but able to do so in Windows Explorer

I have installed and set up SDL and managed to get a tutorial example to build (the tutorial code is from http://zamma.co.uk/setup-sdl2-eclipse-windows/) as a C++ Project in Eclipse.
The problem is that when I try to run the application from Eclipse, the window doesn't appear, or perhaps it gets closed soon after appearing. Eclipse doesn't appear to show any errors.
When I open the folder containing the executable in Windows Explorer and double-click on the application, it works; a window appears with "Hello World" as the title and closes after two seconds.
How can I get the window to appear when I run from Eclipse? Any breakpoints I set are ignored by the debugger.
IDE: Eclipse Luna 4.4.1 OS: Windows 7 64-bit
The program now runs in Eclipse, so the solution may have been to refresh Eclipse and double check Build settings and Run configurations, as well as checking for any OS modifications that may affect the software running on it (thanks to all who replied for the help).

Show command prompt with Qt Creator and CMake

The dev environment in question consists of:
Windows 7
MinGW (g++)
CMake
Qt Creator
The problem is that Qt Creator, a lovely IDE as far as I can tell, does not display programs' command-line output. It seems to have its own proprietary debug pane, but it doesn't give me, for example, runtime errors. It just tells me that the program has failed and gives me the exit code. I'm using Creator only for its C++ capabilities, and not using Qt in any way, so the proprietary pane is useless to me.
So I ask this: Can something be done? Am I missing something really, stupidly obvious like a built-in command line? Or, if not, can I at least use some filthy and/or repulsive hack to get it to display the Windows command prompt upon running a program?
Last thing; I did do some research, and found a way to edit the Qt project file to display the prompt, but... I'm using CMake, not Qt projects. So that doesn't answer my question. If I can do something similar with CMakeLists.txt, that would be wonderful. But Google has failed me on that front, so I'm not holding out too much hope.
EDIT:
I'm specifically worried about runtime errors. cout and printf are rerouted to Qt Creator's window, so that's fine. I don't get runtime errors unless the debugger catches them, and the frequency of that is less than ideal.
Windows GUI programs don't have standard output.
In Windows there are two possible entry points in the standard runtime. The console one and the windows one. The console one will inherit console window from parent process or create a new one and connect the standard input/output/error streams to it, while the windows one will leave them unconnected unless they were explicitly redirected by the invoking process. A Qt application is (probably; you could have console Qt-Core application) a GUI application and Qt Creator (nor any other Windows IDE) does not redirect the output explicitly. Therefore the standard output is not open at all and the writes are being discarded.
However windows have separate logging facility for debugging purpose. This is what you see in the debug window. You can write to it using the native OutputDebugString API. I am sure you can also direct the Qt debug log there.
Note, that when it tells you the program has exited with status 0, it means the program ran, which in turn means it compiled successfully and thus there were no errors from g++. There may have been warnings, in which case you should see them in the appropriate other window. Compiler and program output are different things; the IDE does read the compiler output.

How do I build a Windows GUI Application in Eclipse using C++ (a non console application)

I can't seem to figure out how build a windows GUI application in Eclipse with C++ . I can only build to a console. When I create a new project it doesn't give me the option for a Windows Application. I'm using Eclipse IDE for C/C++. Am I downloading the wrong flavor of Eclipse?
What am I doing wrong?
Here is an example to get you started with creating a simple window:
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/simple_window.html
compiled with mingw this will open a console + the created window.
To hide the console, just add this linker flag: -mwindows
Unlike Visual Studio, Eclipse CDT does not have a built-in wizard or options for automatically configuring compiler settings and libraries for building Windows GUI applications. You will need to know what you are doing. Do you intend to build the GUI using Win32/MinGW, or perhaps using some other GUI library, like Qt or wxWidgets? There are many options.
If you are new to C++ and/or GUI development on windows, then there are easier options to get started with.

How to migrate Borland C++ 5.02 application to Windows 7?

Currently we are migrating our applications developed in Borland C++ 5.02 on Windows XP to Windows 7. While executing the application on Windows 7, I am getting the error message
VBX library init Failure.
While trying to find the cause on the Internet, I was able to identify the error was because of BIVBX31N.EXE and BIVBX31N.dll.
How can I port a Borland C++ 5.02 application to Windows 7, solving the BIVBX31N.EXE and BIVBX31N.dll related issues?
If you're stuck using this product, here is what I recommend.
Simple answer: Don't use the IDE, but continue to use the command line tools:
bcc32.exe (the compiler) still works fine in Windows 8.
ilink32.exe (the linker) still works fine as well.
Both can be found in the bin sub-folder.
You can get some of the command line information by opening the IDE (project) file in Notepad or a hex editor (it isn't a text file, but you can read most stuff in Notepad). Or if you do have access to Windows XP you can open it there just to copy the settings for usage in the command-line tools.
Just use some other IDE or editor like Notepad++ to edit your source files. You can use an older version of Visual C++ to edit the RC files, or Notepad or other tools.
If you want really want to make it slick, set up your IDE to run an "external tool" when you click a toolbar button, to have it run your command-line tools to compile + link (and optionally run the EXE file). You can probably find a debugger tool as well, but I haven't needed that yet, so haven't checked.
My best recommendation is to start the process of porting your code to Visual Studio.
You can use a library like OWLNext if you've used the OWL library in Borland.
The other alternative is is to use Windows Virtual PC (or other such virtual machine) to run Borland in an integrated Windows XP mode. See an example here.
This can be probable answer ???
You have to download configured Borland Compiler from http://www.4shared.com/get/Gs41_5yA/borland_for_graphics.html or http://dwij.co.in/graphics-c-programming-for-windows-7-borland-compiler/.
Put your Borland’s ‘bin’ folder into Environmental Variables.
Now go inside folder ‘bin’ & edit file bcc32.cfg as per your folder structure. This file contains settings of headers & libraries.
-I"D:\Borland\include;"
-L"D:\Borland\lib;D:\Borland\Lib\PSDK"
Now create any C/C++ Program say myprogram.cpp
Use following command to compile this bunch of code:
F:\>bcc32 myprogram.cpp
Congratulations !!!.