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When using iostream in C++ on Linux, it displays the program output in the terminal, but in Windows, it just saves the output to a stdout.txt file. How can I, in Windows, make the output appear in the console?
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A modern console consists of the keyboard and a window on a computer screen. cin (console in), cout (console out), and cerr (console error) are stream objects that become part of every C++ program. The console objects channel streams of bytes to and from running programs.
The WriteConsole function writes characters to the console screen buffer at the current cursor position. The cursor position advances as characters are written. The SetConsoleCursorPosition function sets the current cursor position.
SetConsoleTextAttribute PROC (MS-Windows) Sets the foreground (text) and background color attributes of characters subsequently written to a screen buffer by WriteFile or WriteConsole, or echoed by ReadFile or ReadConsole.
Since you mentioned stdout.txt I google'd it to see what exactly would create a stdout.txt; normally, even with a Windows app, console output goes to the allocated console, or nowhere if one is not allocated.
So, assuming you are using SDL (which is the only thing that brought up stdout.txt), you should follow the advice here. Either freopen stdout and stderr with "CON", or do the other linker/compile workarounds there.
In case the link gets broken again, here is exactly what was referenced from libSDL:
How do I avoid creating stdout.txt and stderr.txt?
"I believe inside the Visual C++ project that comes with SDL there is a SDL_nostdio target > you can build which does what you want(TM)."
"If you define "NO_STDIO_REDIRECT" and recompile SDL, I think it will fix the problem." > > (Answer courtesy of Bill Kendrick)
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For debugging in Visual Studio you can print to the debug console:
OutputDebugStringW(L"My output string.");
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