diff -Naurdp linphone-3.5.2/console/shell.c linphone-3.5.2-argv/console/shell.c
--- linphone-3.5.2/console/shell.c	2012-02-22 11:54:29 +0000
+++ linphone-3.5.2-argv/console/shell.c	2012-09-28 11:15:43 +0000
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
-
+#include <string.h>
 
 #ifdef WIN32
 #include <windows.h>
@@ -181,8 +181,25 @@ static void spawn_linphonec(int argc, ch
 	si.cb = sizeof(si);
 	ZeroMemory( &pinfo, sizeof(pinfo) );
 
+	char* cmd = "linphoned.exe --pipe -c NUL";
+	unsigned int argv_len = strlen(cmd);
+	int i;
+	for (i=0; i<argc; ++i) {
+		argv_len += 1 + strlen(argv[i]);
+	}
 
-	BOOL ret=CreateProcess(NULL,"linphoned.exe --pipe -c NUL",
+	char* cmd_with_args;
+	unsigned int cmd_with_args_length = argv_len * sizeof(*cmd_with_args);
+	cmd_with_args = (char*)malloc(cmd_with_args_length);
+	ZeroMemory(cmd_with_args, cmd_with_args_length);
+
+	strncat(cmd_with_args, cmd, strlen(cmd));
+	for (i=0; i<argc; ++i) {
+		strncat(cmd_with_args, " ", 1);
+		strncat(cmd_with_args, argv[i], strlen(argv[i]));
+	}
+
+	BOOL ret=CreateProcess(NULL, cmd_with_args,
 		NULL,
 		NULL,
 		FALSE,
@@ -191,8 +208,11 @@ static void spawn_linphonec(int argc, ch
 		NULL,
 		&si,
 		&pinfo);
+
+	free(cmd_with_args);
+
 	if (!ret){
-		fprintf(stderr,"Spawning of linphonec.exe failed.\n");
+		fprintf(stderr,"Spawning of linphoned.exe failed.\n");
 	}else{
 		WaitForInputIdle(pinfo.hProcess,1000);
 	}