void RedirectIOToConsole()
{
int hConHandle;
HANDLE lStdHandle;
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO coninfo;
FILE *fp;
// allocate a console for this app
AllocConsole();
// set the screen buffer to be big enough to let us scroll text
GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
&coninfo);
coninfo.dwSize.Y = MAX_CONSOLE_LINES;
SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
coninfo.dwSize);
// redirect unbuffered STDOUT to the console
lStdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
hConHandle = _open_osfhandle((INT_PTR)lStdHandle, _O_TEXT);
fp = _fdopen( hConHandle, "w" );
*stdout = *fp;
setvbuf( stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0 );
// redirect unbuffered STDIN to the console
lStdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
hConHandle = _open_osfhandle((INT_PTR)lStdHandle, _O_TEXT);
fp = _fdopen( hConHandle, "r" );
*stdin = *fp;
setvbuf( stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0 );
// redirect unbuffered STDERR to the console
lStdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
hConHandle = _open_osfhandle((INT_PTR)lStdHandle, _O_TEXT);
fp = _fdopen( hConHandle, "w" );
*stderr = *fp;
setvbuf( stderr, NULL, _IONBF, 0 );
// make cout, wcout, cin, wcin, wcerr, cerr, wclog and clog
// point to console as well
// ios::sync_with_stdio();
}