Can I see the program output in Qt-Creator?

Question

I am writing a simple OpenGL program with Qt Creator which basically creates a QGLWidget, shows it, and runs the application loop. I usually like debugging more with diagnostic messages turned on and off by preprocessor symbols that using an actual debugger and watches etc. In Qt Creator we have a tab called Application Output, but all I see there is "Starting xxx.exe. xxx.exe exited with code 0". No output from either std::cout or std::cerr. Now I know I could start my application from cmd.exe (yes, I am using Windows, love it :P) and see the output there but I wish I could see the output directly from the IDE. Is that possible? Thanks

Answer 1

I know that this answer do not answer the original question, but since when searching for "No application output" we found this answer...

See the following answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26325743/808101 This only apply to qDebug() and similar functions (not direct output to stdout/stderr). In my case, I have to set QT_ASSUME_STDERR_HAS_CONSOLE environment variable to 1 in QtCreator in order to see qDebug() messages inside "Application Output" window.