Re: [hatari-devel] Win32 console patch

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 6.11.2022 21.09, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> On Sonntag, 6. November 2022 15:48:59 CET Christian Zietz wrote:
> > Did you ever find time to check your patch for that?
>
> Checked that now, revised patch attached below. It compiles, but i currently
> get a link error (undefined referenced to WinMain; i noticed that
> libSDL2main.a is linked too, maybe the SDL2.cmake is causing troubles now? I'm
> quite sure i successfully compiled it on windows not so long ago).
>
> > It seems that some (ahem) Windows users have trouble
> > providing debug traces via the separate window (-W option).
>
> Remember that this patch only is active when you run hatari from a console. If
> you run it from the desktop, you still have to use the -W switch.

AllocConsole() and AttachConsole() return values.

Can they be (stored somewhere and) and freed / detached when not needed?

I.e. should there be a corresponding Windows specific close function, 
that gets called from main.c at exit?


	- Eero