I am trying to locate the memory leaks in my Qt application. I already have used Visual Leak Detector for some other projects, but VLD writes the output to the console window.
My problem now is that when using a QApplication, no console window, and therefore no output from VLD, is shown. I am using Visual Studio 2015 with the Qt VS Tools plugin.
Is there a way to force the application to show the console window? Or maybe a way to write the output generated by VLD to a file?
How I start up my application:
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include <vld.h>
#include <QApplication>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
QApplication a(argc, argv);
MainWindow w;
w.show();
return a.exec();
}
As ssbssa pointed out as a comment, the problem could be solved by setting ReportTo and ReportFile in vld.ini found in the installation folder of VLD:
change ReportFile =
to ReportFile = memory_leak_report.txt
or something like that.
change ReportTo = debugger
to ReportTo = file
or ReportTo = both
.
Now the output produced by VLD will be written to the specified file.