suppress ollama_llama_server.exe blank command window popup

[ashokgelal]

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[jmorganca]

I can't seem to reproduce this – how did you trigger it (do you have a screenshot etc?)

[jmorganca]

Also: thanks for the PR!

[ashokgelal]

It's kind of hard to repro but it's definitely reproducible. I'm working on an app that in a way embeds Ollama (downloads Ollama and runs serve in the "background" by spawning a process). The blank window pops up every time you interact with any model. More annoyingly, even if you minimize it, it randomly brings it to the foreground.

Also: thanks for the PR!

Actually, thank you for Ollama. Took me a couple of days to actually nail this down but I had fun learning the code base and hopefully will be able to contribute more in the future.

PS: I built Ollama locally and used the new exe and verified that this PR fixes it. Also, it doesn't seem to impact any of the current behavior.

[ashokgelal]

@jmorganca any thoughts about this? Please Let me know if you need anything else from my side.

[ashokgelal]

After some further testing, I found out that just the cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{CreationFlags: 0x08000000}, solves this issue and don't need to use cmd_path (I was trying to mimic

ollama/cmd/start_windows.go

Line 40 in 4ec7445

cmd_path := "c:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe"

).

@jmorganca Should I create another PR and close this or just update this PR?