Hide Console Next Generation

This is a zero-dependency (implicitly depends on win32 via windows-bindgen) library to achieve multi-subsystem single executable programs on Windows.

If used in a #![windows_subsystem = "windows"] environment, the console is not attached, so this won't do anything

Console hiding methods comparison

	windows_subsystem = "windows"	windows_subsystem = "windows & AllocConsole	windows_subsystem = "windows" & AttachConsole	windows_subsystem = "console" & ShowWindow(SW_HIDE)
runtime selection	❌	✅	✅	✅
console doesn't flash at startup	✅	✅	✅	❌
keeps parent's console and stdin/stdout	❌(detached)	❌*	✅**	✅

* new console is created outside of terminal application ** will attach stdin/stdout, but the console is not owned by our process

The method used in this library will flash a console for a brief period, but otherwise this will allow you to create an application with both GUI and CLI codepaths.

Features

• Zero dependencies
• Detects being run from explorer.exe, otherwise does nothing

Documentation

cargo doc --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

Installation

Add the library:

[target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
hide_console_ng = "0"

Usage

// Optionally specify at the top of "main.rs" ("console" is default)
#![windows_subsystem = "console"]

let is_gui = true; // parse arguments and determine console/windowed mode
if (is_gui) {
    #[cfg(windows)]
    hide_console_ng::hide_console();
}
// continue with your application