VSCode C++ debug capture console output

Question

I am running VSCode in Ubuntu to debug a C++ program. Debugging a console app with GDB is working fine except I really want to capture the console log output to a file. I cannot see a way or option to do this. Is there any option to capture this console log output?

Answer 1

Since there does not seem to be a native feature to save the output of a VSCode terminal, maybe you can use in said terminal a command allowing you to save that session.

See for instance "Gdb print to file instead of stdout"

gdb core.3599 -ex bt -ex quit |& tee backtrace.log

As mentioned, the output is written to backtrace.log and also on the screen.

As the OP Andy Tomlin mentions in the comments, this is not compatible with a debugger session.

We solved the problem by just handling it inside the app and redirecting cout internally to a file.