cout to console in SDL

cignox1 · 2011-11-07T16:31:39

I find it very hard using the debugger provided with Dev-C++ as I cannot make him stop where I want and check the value of every variable, so I would like to print them on the console of course, not on the actual SDL window, but on the dos prompt). It happens that cout doesn't work: is there a way to get cout working as always? Thank you all!

Engines and Middleware Programming

Started by cignox1 February 07, 2005 04:57 AM

40 comments, last by fastcall22 13 years, 3 months ago

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November 07, 2011 03:35 PM

I'm also looking to use cout in my SDL project. Including the lines

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

works while running. I'm working in code blocks and I check console application and pause after execution. The problem is when I try to exit, I get what I think is a seg fault, "Process terminated with status -1073741510". I guess this corresponds to a seg fault, according to my google searches. Sometimes it crashes completely. I've tried moving the freopen to before and after SDL_Init() and I've tried including fclose( stdout ) and fclose (stderr) at various places. Am I missing something? Is there a safe way end the program once you override SDL using freopen? I'm not too sure exactly what freopen does, anyway. Thanks.