At 01:06 PM 11/9/2001, Ignasi Villagrasa wrote: >I'm migrating to Cygwin a Watcom C++ based program. > >It uses printf function as well as Win32 API console output calls. I don't know why, >but only Win32 API functions work fine. Standard library functions don't do anything. > >I built the program linking to crtdll at first and to msvcrt later.Function printf >never works properly . It doesn't print anything. On the other side, for instance, >function WriteConsoleOutput has no problems. > >I think perhaps different find of functions print to different virtual consoles, but >I don't know cygwin enough to know where to configure it. > >So I'd be very glad if someone could give me a hint.
You might want to check the email archives on this subject. There has been a discussion on exactly this issue in the last few weeks. Essentially, if you haven't built a console program (as opposed to one with a GUI), printf doesn't go anywhere. See the email archives thread for details and options (neither of which I recall at the moment! ;-) ) Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
