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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:01:17+00:00

at the beginning I have: #include <sstream> #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h> #include <iomanip> #include

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at the beginning I have:

#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x500 //tells that this is win 2000 or higher, without GetConsoleWindow would not work
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main() {
  PCONSOLE_FONT_INFO lpConsoleCurrentFont;
  GetCurrentConsoleFont(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), false,  lpConsoleCurrentFont);
  return 0;
}

And undocumented function SetConsoleFont works, but GetCurrentConsoleFont fails at compilation saying that it was not declared in this scope.

— edit: changed to self sustained code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    GetCurrentConsoleFont is exported on NT4+ at least, the MinGW headers must be wrong.

    Try adding this code after your #include’s:

    #ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
BOOL WINAPI GetCurrentConsoleFont(HANDLE hConsoleOutput,BOOL bMaximumWindow,PCONSOLE_FONT_INFO lpConsoleCurrentFont);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

    Your code is also wrong, it should be:

    CONSOLE_FONT_INFO ConsoleFontInfo;
GetCurrentConsoleFont(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), false,  &ConsoleFontInfo);

    (Any time you see PSOMETYPE as a parameter you usually allocate a SOMETYPE struct on the stack and pass a pointer to this struct as the parameter)

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