0003446: Doomseeker on Windows needs to redirect output of its command line features.

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0003446

Doomseeker

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2018-08-12 11:48

2018-11-25 19:06

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Zalewa

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low

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minor

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always

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acknowledged

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open

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Microsoft

Windows

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XP/Vista/7

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Summary

0003446: Doomseeker on Windows needs to redirect output of its command line features.

Description

Windows release builds with 'subsystem:windows' disable the output of stdout and stderr to console. There's no output even if doomseeker.exe is run from a cmd.

To fix this problem we either need to allocate our own console (AFAIK this is possible through WinAPI) or redirect the output to a GUI box.

Steps To Reproduce

# Navigate in cmd.exe to doomseeker's directory.
# Run doomseeker.exe with a pure command line action, such as 'doomseeker --help' or 'doomseeker --version-json -'

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(0019325) Blzut3 (administrator) 2018-08-12 19:59	Here's how ECWolf does it:'https://bitbucket.org/ecwolf/ecwolf/src/f641fbed07972eb776ff27082534857a54e6ff0a/src/win32/i_main.cpp#lines-290 [^]' Note that unfortunately it's going to be quirky no matter what since IIRC when you're a Windows app the command prompt doesn't block so, while you can write to the console that started the app, I'm not sure it's possible to pipeline the output. The other option is to be a console app and drop the console, but that has it's quirks since the users will see that happening every launch.

(0019326) Zalewa (developer) 2018-08-12 20:03	Thanks for that example, it will definitely be useful. While enabling piping would be desirable, my main goal here is to provide feedback to the user as right now the user has none.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-08-12 11:48	Zalewa	New Issue
2018-08-12 19:59	Blzut3	Note Added: 0019325
2018-08-12 20:03	Zalewa	Note Added: 0019326
2018-08-20 17:51	WubTheCaptain	Status	new => acknowledged
2018-10-05 08:43	WubTheCaptain	Priority	normal => low
2018-11-25 19:06	Blzut3	Relationship added	has duplicate 0003567
2018-11-25 19:06	Blzut3	Relationship deleted	has duplicate 0003567
2018-11-25 21:55	WubTheCaptain	Relationship added	has duplicate 0003567
2018-11-25 22:02	Blzut3	Relationship deleted	has duplicate 0003567

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