From 92723556969b9743119b516b6205bec78aa09985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: radius <andres.430@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 15:33:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] make the console toggleable at runtime instead of compilation
 time

---
 Makefile    |  4 ++++
 verbosity.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c6032882d2..29cf95fc3a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ else
    OPTIMIZE_FLAG = -O3 -ffast-math
 endif
 
+ifneq ($(findstring Win32,$(OS)),)
+   LDFLAGS += -mwindows
+endif
+
 CFLAGS   += -Wall $(OPTIMIZE_FLAG) $(INCLUDE_DIRS) $(DEBUG_FLAG) -I.
 
 APPEND_CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS)
diff --git a/verbosity.c b/verbosity.c
index 5c1e397d8b..759bc5b4f1 100644
--- a/verbosity.c
+++ b/verbosity.c
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 #endif
 #endif
 
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
 
@@ -50,11 +54,22 @@ static bool main_verbosity = false;
 void verbosity_enable(void)
 {
    main_verbosity = true;
+#ifdef _WIN32
+   AllocConsole();
+   AttachConsole( GetCurrentProcessId()) ;
+   freopen( "CON", "w", stdout );
+   freopen( "CON", "w", stderr );
+#endif
 }
 
 void verbosity_disable(void)
 {
    main_verbosity = false;
+#ifdef _WIN32
+   HWND wnd = GetConsoleWindow();
+   FreeConsole();
+   PostMessage(wnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
+#endif
 }
 
 bool verbosity_is_enabled(void)