Developing Console Applications and GUI Applications

Console applications will be covered in more detail later in this book. For the moment, it is sufficient to mention that these are applications operating in the text mode. At the same time, they are fully functional 32-bit programs. The structure of a typical console application will be covered in Chapter 8. For now, it is essential to mention only that to generate a console application using TLINK32.EXE, it is necessary to use the -ap command-line option instead of -aa . As for the linker supplied as part of the MASM32 product, it is necessary to use /subsystem:console instead of /subsystem: windows .