QtCoreApplication console app

[titaniumdecoy]

I am trying to write a console-based QtCore application but am unable to figure out how to do so.

According to the documentation, QCoreApplication should be used for command-line apps.

I have the following code:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);
 
    CLIClient *client = new CLIClient;
    client.run();
 
    return app.exec();
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);

    CLIClient *client = new CLIClient;
    client.run();

    return app.exec();
}

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client.run() contains a while loop which never exits which drives the command-line interface. However, since app.exec() is never called I can't use QProcess and other QtCore components.

How can I use the QCoreApplication event loop which is alluded to in the documentation?