Using putStrLn/printf from DLL in GUI application

[Simon Marlow]

Krasimir Angelov wrote:
> How many times you tried to use putStrLn from Haskell or printf from C
> when you are building DLL loaded in GUI application?
> 
> This simply doesn't work because by default the GUI application
> doesn't have console window. The solution is to use
> allocConsole/freeConsole from the attached library.
> 
> 
> Example:
> 
> do allocConsole
>     .....
>     .....
>     putStrLn "Hello, world!"
>     .....
>     .....
>     freeConsole
> 
> This could be a good addition to the standard Win32 library if someone
> take care to integrate it.

So that we don't lose this: will someone propose a patch to packages/Win32?

Cheers,
	Simon