Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] w32: QEMU applications with SDL are always GUI applications

[TeLeMan]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 14:45, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 22.12.2011 02:50, schrieb TeLeMan:
>
>> SDL-1.3 removed the stdio-redirect feature, so we should ignore it.
>>
>> Blue Swirl, can you revert this commit?
>
>
> I'd prefer to keep it. There are good reason why SDL applications
> are linked as Windows applications by default, so we should use
> this default.
>
> Yes, it's no perfect solution, but even for developers who want
> to see stdout and stderr, it works when you use a rxvt console
> or something equivalent.
Now the MinGW default shell is a console application and rxvt is unmaintained.

> You said that you use a self-compiled SDL library.
> Then you can change your sdl-config or sdl.pc so that it
> sets the SDL linker options according to your needs.
>
> What about my proposal to create each system emulation in two
> variants (qemu-system-i386.exe, qemu-system-i386w.exe)?
> Do you think this might be a solution which fits everybody's
> needs?
Yes, I agree this solution. But because qemu-system-i386.exe will be
also a console application, we can revert your commit at first.

> Regards,
> Stefan Weil
>
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