How to add console window in Win32 Project, Visual Studio 2010

Question

I'm going to add console window in Win32 Project, Visual Studio 2010. OS : Windows XP (x64 bit)

I'm going to debug some library which is developed with console project. I add this one in to my Win32 project.

Is there any solution to add console window in to Win32 Project ?

Answer 1

As mentioned in this blog post (which I found by typing "add console to win32 project" into Google), you can accomplish this with the following code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                     int       nCmdShow)
{
    AllocConsole();

    HANDLE handle_out = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    int hCrt = _open_osfhandle((long) handle_out, _O_TEXT);
    FILE* hf_out = _fdopen(hCrt, "w");
    setvbuf(hf_out, NULL, _IONBF, 1);
    *stdout = *hf_out;

    HANDLE handle_in = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
    hCrt = _open_osfhandle((long) handle_in, _O_TEXT);
    FILE* hf_in = _fdopen(hCrt, "r");
    setvbuf(hf_in, NULL, _IONBF, 128);
    *stdin = *hf_in;

    // use the console just like a normal one - printf(), getchar(), ...
}