diff --git a/Contrib/SubStart/SConscript b/Contrib/SubStart/SConscript
index 2a8f5499..b805b484 100644
--- a/Contrib/SubStart/SConscript
+++ b/Contrib/SubStart/SConscript
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ libs = Split("""
 
 Import('BuildUtil')
 
-substart = BuildUtil(target, files, libs)
+substart = BuildUtil(target, files, libs, cli = True)
 
 env.DistributeBin(substart, names=['makensis.exe'], alias='install-compiler') # install as makensis
diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 3cb9d3c2..01e668d1 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ Import('AddZLib')
 
 def BuildUtilEnv(defines = None, flags = None, libs = None,
                  entry = None, nodeflib = None,
-                 cross_platform = False):
+                 cross_platform = False, cli = False):
 	if not cross_platform:
 		env = util_env.Clone()
 		platform = 'win32'
@@ -655,6 +655,9 @@ def BuildUtilEnv(defines = None, flags = None, libs = None,
 		env = cp_util_env.Clone()
 		platform = env['PLATFORM']
 
+	if cli:
+		env.Append(LINKFLAGS = env['SUBSYS_CON'])
+
 	if libs and 'z' in libs:
 		libs.remove('z')
 		AddZLib(env, platform)
@@ -667,8 +670,8 @@ def BuildUtil(target, source, libs, entry = None, res = None,
               resources = None, defines = None, flags = None,
               nodeflib = False, file_name = '', path='', contrib = False,
               examples = None, docs = None, cross_platform = False,
-							root_util = False):
-	env = BuildUtilEnv(defines, flags, libs, entry, nodeflib, cross_platform)
+              root_util = False, cli = False):
+	env = BuildUtilEnv(defines, flags, libs, entry, nodeflib, cross_platform, cli)
 
 	AppendRES(env, source, res, resources)