How do I get console output in C++ with a Windows program?

You can also reopen the cout and cerr streams to output to a file as well. The following should work for this:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int main ()
{
    std::ofstream file;
    file.open ("cout.txt");
    std::streambuf* sbuf = std::cout.rdbuf();
    std::cout.rdbuf(file.rdbuf());
    //cout is now pointing to a file
    return 0;
}

Don't quote me on this, but the Win32 console API might be what you're looking for. If you're just doing this for debugging purposes, however, you might be more interested in running DebugView and calling the DbgPrint function.

This of course assumes its your application you want sending console output, not reading it from another application. In that case, pipes might be your friend.