[vlc-devel] ADD libvlc winconsole switch

[Laurent Aimar]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009, basos g wrote:
>    2009/4/17 David Flynn <[1]davidf+nntp at woaf.net>
>      On 2009-04-17, basos g <[2]noxelia at gmail.com> wrote:
>      > I wouldn't make a clue about a printf %zu platform specific bug that
>      is
>      > caused by the latest *printf re0rganizing and caused a silent crash
>      (that's
>      > another case though), if i didn't see the logs to the win console.
> 
>      Don't see how that helps -- you'll never see the message since it died
>      inside *printf.  Its much easier to look at the stack and go, aaah.
> 
>    This is a fact, i saw the debugs that were missed before. I traced the
>    issue and found that the spurious printf is the one inside module need
>    that has a %s after %zu( which us untranslated). Thus causing a segfault.
>    For this issue i was told to upgrade to mingw runtime 3.15 (from 3.14). I
>    am doing so right now. And i will report the results.
 Did you try a msys console ? Last time I tried, vlc -vvv directly display vlc
logs in it (not sure if it is early enought, but seems so).

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