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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 40321: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/: base64.

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:30:08 -0800
On 1/5/12 6:48 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Checked in in r40378. At the present time you must compile the main
>> sources using CMake, then compile the Qt code using Qt Creator. More
>> information can be found in doc/README.qt.
> 
> I've built Qt-GUI using MSVC2010. Looks rather simple now, but good
> job! Only offline capture works for me now. See:
>  http://home.broadpark.no/~gvanem/misc/wireshark-qt.png

Great!

> But, the LFLAGS in the generated makefile contains a
> '-subsystem:windows'. (so I guess main() is defined in qtmain.lib?).
> This causes "wireshark -h" to output nothing. Do we need to use the
> create-console-kludge as in gtk/main.c still? Using '-subsystem:console'
> works for me.
> Is there an option to insert this into QtShark.pro?

gtk/main.c has create_console, which calls AttachConsole and grabs
stdin, stdout, and stderr, and which doesn't exist in ui/qt. It should
probably be moved to the common ui directory.