[gimpwin-users] Running GIMP from Command Line Under Windoze

Kevin Myers writes:
 > then all is fine and gimp starts up in interactive mode.  But if I try:
 > "d:\program files\gimp\bin\gimp" -v
 > 
 > or
 > "d:\program files\gimp\bin\gimp" --verbose --console-messages
 > 
 > or
 > "d:\program files\gimp\bin\gimp" -n --no-data -b '(script-fu-log-process
 > "image018test.tif" "")' '(gimp-quit)'
 > 
 > nothing seems to happen with any of these command lines.  Any ideas what the
 > problem may be???

gimp.exe is a windowing application. It's stdout and stderr are thus
by default not opened, and the output from --verbose goes
nowhere. Redirect its output to a file (gimp >gimp.log), or pipe to
more (gimp | more).

Yes, there could be code in GIMP to check if --verbose or some other
switch that causes output to stdout is present, and in that case call
AllocConsole(). Hmm, except that I am not sure whether doing only that
would help, probably one would also need to freopen stdout to "CON:" or
something after calling AllocConsole()?)

Earlier I used to build GIMP as a console application, and then it
closed the console unless it was asked to be verbose. (This meant that
there was a console window that opened up when you started the GIMP,
but which immediately closed. A bit confusing.)

--tml