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Is it possible to redirect standard output to the output window from Visual Studio?
I use OutputDebugString in my program, but I use some libraries that have output debug messages with printf’s or cout’s.
Straightforward standard output redirection will not work, as there is no handle corresponding to OutputDebugString. However, there should be a way:
It could be done by redirecting standard output to a pipe, and then creating a thread which would read the pipe and print anything read from it using OutputDebugString.
Note: I was contemplating for a long ago to implement this, as I am facing exactly the same problem as you do (some libraries using printf or fprintf(stderr….). However, I never really did this. I have always ended modifying the libraries instead, and therefore I do not have a working implementation, but I think it should be feasible in principle.