Windows CLI that writes messages to the debugger via OutputDebugString

• Introduction
• Installation
• Components
• Examples
• Project Information
  • Where to get help
  • Contribution guidelines
  • Dependencies
  • Related projects
  • License

WriteDebugString is a small Windows-only utility that writes one or more messages to the Windows debug output stream (as consumed by debuggers and tools such as DebugView), using STLSoft/WinSTL helpers.

Detailed instructions - via CMake - are provided in the accompanying INSTALL.md file.

The project creates a single executable program, WriteDebugString.

> writedebugstring.exe hello world
wrote 2 message(s) to debug stream

> writedebugstring.exe --sleep-after-writes "hold for listener"
wrote 1 message(s) to debug stream

GitHub Page

Defect reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on the WriteDebugString GitHub page.

WriteDebugString depends on:

• STLSoft;

Other sistools projects include:

• chomp;
• errni (errno on all platforms, and also GetLastError codes on Windows);
• lnunique;
• lslocales;
• lstrip;
• mksock (Unix-only);
• ReadDebugString (Windows-only);
• realpath (Windows-only);
• rstrip;

WriteDebugString is released under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.