WIndows GUI doesn't create the log file

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Description

The Windows GUI application fails to generate a log file; the pactus.log file is missing from the data folder.

How To Reproduce

1. Download version v1.0.0 of the software.
2. Run the Windows-GUI application.
3. Observe that no log file is produced.

What Happened

The root cause of this issue is the use of the -H windowsgui flag during the releasing process for the Windows binary, look here.
This flag is documented here and specifies that:

On Windows, the -H windowsgui option produces a GUI binary instead of a console binary.

Using -H windowsgui detaches the console from the application.
The logging mechanism works like this: Logs are written to stderr, and then the system reads the stderr output and writes it into a file. In the absence of a console, both stdout and stderr are nullified, resulting in no log file being generated.

Solution

To resolve the issue, verify if stderr is null. If true, create a buffer writer to redirect log output from the logger to the file writer, ensuring log file creation.

Environment

• Operation System: Windows
• Pactus Version: 1.0.0
• Go Version: 21.0