How do I create an executable from Golang that doesn't open a console window when run?

console, go

Solution

The documentation found online says I can compile with something along the lines of,

`go build -ldflags -Hwindowsgui filename.go`

But this gives an error: `unknown flag -Hwindowsgui`

With more recent (1.1?) versions of the compiler, this should work:

`go build -ldflags -H=windowsgui filename.go`

When I continued searching around I found a note that the official documentation should be updated soon, but in the meantime there are a lot of older-style example answers out there that error.

Problem

I created an application that I want to run invisibly in the background (no console). How do I do this? (This is for Windows, tested on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit)

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