From 8d75ba4d642fd7e616a39c72d1e92bc9ee98ad54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik Schmidt <dev@dominik-schmidt.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:28:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add console output on windows

---
 src/main.cpp | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index b561d21f8..1c20c03a6 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -36,10 +36,38 @@
     #include "breakpad/BreakPad.h"
 #endif
 
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+#include <io.h>
+#define argc __argc
+#define argv __argv
+// code taken from AbiWord, (c) AbiSource Inc.
+
+int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
+    PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
+{
+    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 (GetModuleHandleW(L"kernel32.dll"), "AttachConsole");
+
+        if (p_AttachConsole != NULL && p_AttachConsole (ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS))
+        {
+            _wfreopen (L"CONOUT$", L"w", stdout);
+            dup2 (fileno (stdout), 1);
+            _wfreopen (L"CONOUT$", L"w", stderr);
+            dup2 (fileno (stderr), 2);
+        }
+    }
+#else // Q_OS_WIN
 int
 main( int argc, char *argv[] )
 {
-#ifdef Q_WS_MAC
+    #ifdef Q_WS_MAC
     // Do Mac specific startup to get media keys working.
     // This must go before QApplication initialisation.
     Tomahawk::macMain();
@@ -47,7 +75,8 @@ main( int argc, char *argv[] )
     // used for url handler
     AEEventHandlerUPP h = AEEventHandlerUPP( appleEventHandler );
     AEInstallEventHandler( 'GURL', 'GURL', h, 0, false );
-#endif
+    #endif // Q_WS_MAC
+#endif //Q_OS_WIN
 
 /*    // Unity hack taken from Clementine's main.cpp
 #ifdef Q_OS_LINUX