RE: need help with visual studio

> From: Mark Hahn
> I have a problem with my use of Visual Studio Profession 
> 2003.  I am hoping someone might have a word of advice for 
> me.  Maybe a better list to send this to?
> 
> I'm using the Apache Portable Runtime, APR, and it redefines 
> a bunch of symbols that are in LIBCMTD.lib, a basic C runtime 
> lib from visual studio.
> I have to specifically tell VS to ignore LIBCMTD.lib or I get 
> hard linker errors saying that the symbols are defined more 
> than once.  So this is my first question:  why can't I 
> somehow tell the linker which lib to use when I have multiple 
> definitions instead of having to disable a library completely?

How about sending me a current copy of the complete workspace and I'll take
a look at it. Easier than trying to advise in generalities.

> Now I am using assert statements and it turns out that the 
> CrtDbgReport function is in LIBCMTD.lib so when I get an 
> assertion error it just dumps out with no report.  This makes 
> debugging a bit tough.  It may be printing something on the 
> console, but I have no way to tell.  This brings up my next problem.
> 
> Visual Studio has dropped the old ability to have the console 
> appear in the IDE itself.  I really miss this.  Now you have 
> a seperate pop-up console window.  The worst part is this 
> pop-up window dissapears the instant the app closes or 
> crashes and leaves no way to see any left-over messages.
> 
> So this is my last question.  How can I view my console after 
> a crash?  I've got break statements everywhere interesting 
> including the end of main, but I can't put break statements 
> on asserts because there is no way to tell the break to only 
> happen on an assertion failure.

While the app is running, right click the titlebar of the console/output
window and you will find some options. You may have autohide turned on. You
can turn on dockable if it isn't already dockable, then drag it to any edge
of the VS.NET window and it will stick there. Let me know if that doesn't do
the trick.

-Mike