From 78ac55ced8691adfa03e4efbd139897599fca7b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:14:52 +0000
Subject: On Windows, when called from a console, get console output (works only

with Windows XP or higher. Windows 2000 will not have console output
but it will just work fine.)
---
(limited to 'shell/main.c')

diff --git a/shell/main.c b/shell/main.c
index 2d966af..214e9c0 100644
--- a/shell/main.c
+++ b/shell/main.c
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@
 #endif
 #endif /* WITH_SMCLIENT */
 
+#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
+#ifdef DATADIR
+#undef DATADIR
+#endif
+#include <io.h>
+#include <conio.h>
+#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+
 static gchar   *ev_page_label;
 static gchar   *ev_find_string;
 static gboolean preview_mode = FALSE;
@@ -387,6 +397,31 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 	GHashTable *args;
 	GError *error = NULL;
 
+#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
+
+    if (fileno (stdout) != -1 &&
+ 	  _get_osfhandle (fileno (stdout)) != -1)
+	{
+	  /* stdout is fine, presumably redirected to a file or pipe */
+	}
+    else
+    {
+	  typedef BOOL (* WINAPI AttachConsole_t) (DWORD);
+
+	  AttachConsole_t p_AttachConsole =
+	    (AttachConsole_t) GetProcAddress (GetModuleHandle ("kernel32.dll"), "AttachConsole");
+
+	  if (p_AttachConsole != NULL && p_AttachConsole (ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS))
+      {
+	      freopen ("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
+	      dup2 (fileno (stdout), 1);
+	      freopen ("CONOUT$", "w", stderr);
+	      dup2 (fileno (stderr), 2);
+
+      }
+	}
+#endif
+
 	/* Init glib threads asap */
 	if (!g_thread_supported ())
 		g_thread_init (NULL);
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