my visual studio win32 c++ projects don't interact with the desktop when running on winre ( the recovery environment installed onto a usb stick from the 'create recovery drive' within windows ). any idea why console apps dont send their output to the command line window, and why GUI apps dont show a window on the desktop ? i have tried win32console and win32 windowed applications from visual studio 2008 and visual studio 2019, on various winre environments from older and latest win10pro installations, and a recent win11pro installation. i'm sure i have got a project to work once in the past but cant remember what was different. the projects have all been created with default options with no ATL or MFC enabled.
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changing Project Properties->Configuration Properties->C/C++->Code Generation->Runtime Library from Multi-threaded DLL to Multi-threaded, enables the project to interact with the WinRE desktop.
while this setting is documented on the microsoft website, i failed to appreciate it needs to be changed for all permutations of debug/release/x32/x64 projects and so was inadvertently compiling with DLL linking enabled when i thought i had turned it off.
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