Console window on Linux/C++

[nawitus]

Hi', I'm coding an OpenGL library using C++ in Ubuntu 8.10 and using the Geany IDE 0.14. If I run the program for terminal for example, cout is not printing anything to there.. I really need a console window to debug some stuff like FPS information while I'm running the program.

My compile argument is: (not sure if this is relevant..)
g++ -Wall -c "%f" -lSDL `sdl-config –cflags –libs` -lSDL_ttf -lSDL_gfx -lSDL_mixer -lGL -lGLU -lGLEW

[JL235]

A bunch of random ideas:

If I run the program for terminal for example

When you say 'for terminal' do you mean your running it from a terminal or from Geany IDE with some terminal mode? If your running it from the IDE try going to the program manually in a terminal and run it from there. It might be that the IDE is redirecting the output to somewhere.

If you compile a 'hello world' program, does this print correctly to the terminal?

Are you doing any redirection of the standard output in the program (i.e. it could be a bug that you've added)?

[Jim]

More random ideas.  Can you check the value of stdout?  Is your program finishing before the output is flushed to the console?

Jim

[nawitus]

It's fixed now. Turns out an update to Geany breaks building projects, described here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479795