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How to display OutputDebugMessage-output without Visual Studio

According of my attempt, windbg could not accomplish this task. dbgview is one of alternative.

dbgview is not included to common SDK or Devtools. Can download from: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

To use, run dbgview.exe and configure its filter, finally run debug target application. For modern Windows, must run dbgview.exe as Administrator, otherwise cannot receive debug messages from common applications.

Note that OutputDebugMessage (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363362(v=vs.85).aspx) seems to work fine without debug configuration. (/Zi, /DEBUG) So, should do like this for release build:

#ifdef DEBUG
  OutputDebugMessage(L"debug message")
#endif
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