From 45af51ad3787b161b103de0ea1b68cfe3a19337d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Dar=C3=ADo?= <dariosamo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 03:08:00 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add command-line option to show console output on Windows.
 (#632)

---
 src/main/main.cpp | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/main.cpp b/src/main/main.cpp
index cef8db2..c25c182 100644
--- a/src/main/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main/main.cpp
@@ -579,6 +579,22 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
     }
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
+    for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
+    {
+        if (strcmp(argv[i], "--show-console") == 0)
+        {
+            if (GetConsoleWindow() == nullptr)
+            {
+                AllocConsole();
+                freopen("CONIN$", "r", stdin);
+                freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stderr);
+                freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
+            }
+
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
     // Set up console output to accept UTF-8 on windows
     SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);