How do I change the SubSystem to a window in SDL2 without the symbols failing to load?

Question

I've been using SDL2/c++ for a while and now that some of my projects are finished I started trying to find a way to run them without the console showing up. I was told to go to Project > Properties > Linker > System > SubSystem (change to /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS) and that's exactly what I did. The problem is that now I get errors related to the symbols.

This is the simple code I've been trying to run without the console showing up.

#include <iostream>
#include "SDL.h"

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) == 0)
        std::cout << "I";
    return 0;
}

And these are the errors I keep getting:

'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\Sorin\Desktop\finstream\x64\Debug\finstream.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\vcruntime140d.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Users\Sorin\Desktop\finstream\finstream\SDL2.dll'. Module was built without symbols.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcp140d.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\vcruntime140_1d.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\advapi32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbased.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcrt.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\sechost.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbased.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbased.dll'
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\rpcrt4.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\gdi32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\win32u.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ole32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\gdi32full.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcp_win.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll'
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\user32.dll'
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\combase.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\imm32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\oleaut32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\setupapi.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\version.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\winmm.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\uxtheme.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\SHCore.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel.appcore.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\bcryptprimitives.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\clbcatq.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\MMDevAPI.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\devobj.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cfgmgr32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cfgmgr32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cfgmgr32.dll'
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cfgmgr32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cfgmgr32.dll'
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\avrt.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\dinput8.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\InputHost.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\CoreMessaging.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\hid.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\cryptbase.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\wintrust.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\crypt32.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msasn1.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
'finstream.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\XInput1_4.dll'. Symbol loading disabled by Include/Exclude setting.
The thread 0x2ae0 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x60ac has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x6b6c has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x4dbc has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x4668 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0xaa4 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x5ddc has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program '[32192] finstream.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

Keep in mind that this works just fine when the SubSystem is set to console.

EDIT: I'm using visual studio.

***And these are the errors I keep getting:*** None of those are errors. These are warnings about loading symbols that help you debug inside these OS functions. Perhaps you think you can help Microsoft fix a bug in their OS or you want to see how your program interacts with the OS. Unless you are an expert you should not want to debug inside your OS functions so its unimportant for the symbols to be loaded. — drescherjm, Dec 19 '22 at 16:29

How do I change the SubSystem to a window in SDL2 without the symbols failing to load?

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