Getting rid of the console window using SFML and CMake on Windows-OS

when creating an application with SFML on Windows usually a console-window appears next to (or behind) the application-window.
To get rid of it you have to tell CMake that its going to be a windows-application and link against sfml-main-lib.
Telling CMake you're writing an windows application is done with:

1	add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} WIN32 ${SOURCES})

Unfortunately this forces you to use

1	int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE,HINSTANCE,LPSTR,int)

as application-entry-point and therefore include "windows.h" in the main.cpp, which makes the codebase plattform-specific. This can be avoided by linking against sfml-main-lib.
CMakeLists.txt should look similar to this:

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0) project(YourProjectName) set(SFML_ROOT "C:/Program Files (x86)/SFML") set(SOURCES main.cpp ...) find_package(SFML COMPONENTS System Window Graphics Main) include_directories(${SFML_INCLUDE_DIR}) add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} WIN32 ${SOURCES}) target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SFML_LIBRARIES})

now you should be able to compile the program with a simple entry-function like

1	int main()

and getting an application-window without a console-window.