From 5cbb3f33f8542cce5437f46f048bc732fbbee173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: radius <andres.430@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:57:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use existing console if available

---
 frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c b/frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c
index 9ed921f0b0..561f63860c 100644
--- a/frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c
+++ b/frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c
@@ -323,8 +323,11 @@ static uint64_t frontend_win32_get_mem_used(void)
 static void frontend_win32_attach_console(void)
 {
 #ifdef _WIN32
-   AllocConsole();
-   AttachConsole( GetCurrentProcessId()) ;
+   if (!AttachConsole(ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS))
+   {
+      AllocConsole();
+      AttachConsole( GetCurrentProcessId()) ;
+   }
    freopen( "CON", "w", stdout );
    freopen( "CON", "w", stderr );
 #endif