[Lazarus] Lazarus documentation

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

With Windows if you need to output something to the console in a GUI app, you use OutputDebugString. This will output to the console when running the app under gdb.

Thanks.

-Phil

----- "Brad Campbell" <brad at wasp.net.au> wrote:

> Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> > Brad Campbell schrieb:
> > 
> >>> On Windows you can uncheck the option (see above), to get a GUI 
> >>> application with an attached console. A very nice feature for 
> >>> debugging, not available on most other platforms.
> >>
> >> Actually not _required_ on other platforms. Other platforms let you
> 
> >> run an application from a console and witness its output should you
> so 
> >> desire, without having to recompile the application with odd
> options.
> > 
> > Thanks, I didn't know that it's so easy.
> > 
> > The same procedure should be possible on Windows?
> 
> No, on Windows you need to compile the app as console mode to have it
> write anything to a console 
> window, otherwise it just launches the application and returns you to
> the console prompt.
> 
> I had to debug some Win stuff recently, and as I've been lucky enough
> to have avoided it for many 
> years now, this oddity caught me several times.
> 
> Brad
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