Well it does seem I have a knack for asking obsolete questions,
although I really was stuck with this problem and Google wasn't
helping, it seems a fresh pair of eyes did the trick. <br>
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The problem was that it was running in the console subsystem, as
opposed to the GUI windows subsystem. Solved simply by adding the flag
-mwindows to g++. <br>
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Thanks for Inkscape anyway. ;)<br>
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Kind regards, <br>
Hal <br>