From a6b23a751efabb099e6c6c4a8780d43f17f2eabe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marek Roszko <mark.roszko@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 20:56:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add env var to force logging on msw

(cherry picked from commit 18dd6231222923297b9f13e3a55e0ea54c88fce5)
---
 libs/kiplatform/msw/app.cpp | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libs/kiplatform/msw/app.cpp b/libs/kiplatform/msw/app.cpp
index dc45442efa..82cace000c 100644
--- a/libs/kiplatform/msw/app.cpp
+++ b/libs/kiplatform/msw/app.cpp
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ bool KIPLATFORM::APP::Init()
     {
         #if !defined( __MINGW32__ ) // These redirections create problems on mingw:
                                     // Nothing is printed to the console
+
+
         if( GetStdHandle( STD_INPUT_HANDLE ) != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
         {
             freopen( "CONIN$", "r", stdin );
@@ -96,6 +98,18 @@ bool KIPLATFORM::APP::Init()
         std::cin.clear();
     }
 
+    // It may be useful to log up to traces in a console, but in Release builds the log level changes to Info
+    // Also we have to force the active target to stderr or else it goes to the void
+    bool forceLog = wxGetEnv( wxS( "KICAD_FORCE_CONSOLE_TRACE" ), nullptr );
+    if( forceLog )
+    {
+        wxLog::EnableLogging( true );
+#ifndef DEBUG
+        wxLog::SetLogLevel( wxLOG_Trace );
+#endif;
+        wxLog::SetActiveTarget( new wxLogStderr );
+    }
+
     return true;
 }