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This is an example graceful terminating console application for Windows.

This shows how an console application can graceful terminate itself upon receiving a CTRL+C/CTRL+BREAK/CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT/CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT/CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT.

This should be compiled with GCC from MinGW-w64. From a MSYS2 (available as a chocolatey package too) console run:

pacman --noconfirm -Sy mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc make zip
export PATH="/mingw64/bin:$PATH"
make

Reference

• Windows Console
• Console CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK Signals
• SetConsoleCtrlHandler function
• HandlerRoutine callback function