How to redirect standard output to output window from Visual Studio

Question

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

Answer 1

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.