Using the Console Window With SDL

[XianForce]

So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?

[Ginto8]

So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?

If by "console window" you mean the terminal that comes up when you sometimes start the app, you can't really use it, primarily due to the fact that stdout and stderr are both redirected to files by SDL. If you mean an in-game console, lazyfoo has a tutorial on text input in SDL: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson23/index.php

[XianForce]

So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?

If by "console window" you mean the terminal that comes up when you sometimes start the app, you can't really use it, primarily due to the fact that stdout and stderr are both redirected to files by SDL. If you mean an in-game console, lazyfoo has a tutorial on text input in SDL: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson23/index.php

I meant the terminal. And I know it's rerouted, but I thought there was a way to 're'reroute it... hmmm

[combatant936]

If you're using Visual Studio you can set it up to use the console window.

Go to project->properties and under configuration properties go to linker then system.
Where it says "SubSystem", change that to "Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)".

That will make a console window come up along with the SDL window and you can use iostream or whatever you want.

[dandymcgee]

So I've been wanting to get a console window working with SDL for quite some time now, and I've gone through a few google searches, but can't really find a concise answer.

So does anyone know how to get it working? Or have a link to an article/tutorial on it?

If by "console window" you mean the terminal that comes up when you sometimes start the app, you can't really use it, primarily due to the fact that stdout and stderr are both redirected to files by SDL. If you mean an in-game console, lazyfoo has a tutorial on text input in SDL: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson23/index.php

I meant the terminal. And I know it's rerouted, but I thought there was a way to 're'reroute it... hmmm

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freopen( "CON", "w", stdout );
freopen( "CON", "w", stderr );

Toss that in there somewhere. Works for output.

[davidthefat]

If you use codeblocks, the debug build always has the console window, the release build does not

[Falco Girgis]

Both visual studio and xcode still allow virtual terminals for standard output with the correct type of project...

[XianForce]

Both visual studio and xcode still allow virtual terminals for standard output with the correct type of project...

Wow... Are you kidding me?

I just tried it and it worked.

I tried it like a few months ago and got a BSOD... lol


Well thanks for that then

[eatcomics]

I tried it like a few months ago and got a BSOD... lol

there's no way your program did that, there's something else going on there