However I’m extremely reluctant to add some C thing or, as much as it takes me back to my formative years, some Pascal thing.
What was requested was a tiny executable that is itself a GUI application (so that it doesn’t itself spawn a console window) that can spawn another executable (in this case, one that does use a console) in a hidden window.
That’s precisely what this does. The language shouldn’t make any difference.
It does when I have to maintain it and the build environment for it, for x86, x86_64, arm, and arm64.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. Sorry for the inconvenience. For those that want to use it, and like the small binary size, here it is.
For anyone interested, here’s an updated executable that starts syncthing.exe using “below normal” process priority (in case the setLowPriority configuration setting is set to false).
StartSyncthing-0.0.2.zip (116.0 KB)