SDL and stdout?

Are you creating the project as a Console Application?

OK, this is what a gathered while I used to make stuff for windows:

Console applications print to the console.
win32 applications create an stdout.txt

The reason for this is that stdio requires a console of some kind to work, and the windows api substitutes stdout.txt, to ensure compatibility I think. Either way, it uses a text file as the console.

So, you need to compile your application as a console application from the ground up.

If your main function is
int WINAPI
WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)

Then you have a win32 application, which will use stdout.txt as the console.
alternatively, if you have int main() or int main(char ** argc, int argv) or just int main() then you have a console application and stdout should use the console.

Well, sorry for this noob question :(
With sdl, int main( int argc, char* argv[]) is the main function, so it should be a console aplication, but maybe sdl redefines it to a WinMain funtion?

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Original post by martin_bfg10k Well, sorry for this noob question :( With sdl, int main( int argc, char* argv[]) is the main function, so it should be a console aplication, but maybe sdl redefines it to a WinMain funtion?

SDL defines main to SDL_main in SDL_main.h. On Windows, it supplies its own WinMain in the SDLmain.lib file (IIRC).

There is AFAIK no way to disable redirection without recompiling SDL. If you don't mind recompiling it, I think there is a --disable-stdio-redirect flag to pass to configure (./configure --help will give you a list of options) . I don't know how to do that with Visual Studio because I don't use it.

It seems that I will have to recompile sdl for windows.
Thanks for the replies.