Printing text

[pippy]

As a C coder (going on C++ coder), I print debug text or information using fprintf(stderr,"") or fprintf(stdout,"")

This isn't desirable when building a release version of a game, as it would require a console box to be open. How would I pipe text and debug information to console and have it not show up in a release version?

[Atraides]

i just did a quick search of the forums and found this.

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#pragma comment(linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")

this will supposably hide the console window. you just need to put it just before your main()

*note i havent tested it, its just what i have seen*

[pippy]

i just did a quick search of the forums and found this.

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#pragma comment(linker, "/SUBSYSTEM:windows /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")

this will supposably hide the console window. you just need to put it just before your main()

*note i havent tested it, its just what i have seen*

thanks! to be honest i thought i would have to rewrite my code to stream text to the irr stream

but that seems a lot easier. However i notice the "/SUBSYSTEM:windows", does this mean its not cross compatible?

[catron]

what compiler are you using?

in code::blocks goto Project->Properties->Targets->Type = GUI Application.
also you may have to retype the output and execution dirs. it is a cross platform solution so good luck