Isn't there no way to show debug console in standalone build?

Unity Engine
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Hi.

I have many Debug.Log(“something”); in my entire code.

But I want to see it at standalone build too.

How?

Build Setting’s [Development Build] checkbox is related?

I tested checked it and run, but still can’t see debug console message, it just show screen’s right-below’s “Development build” white text.

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You’ll have to do it yourself, Unity doesn’t support Debug on standalone builds as far as I know.

In this case, IO to the rescue!

Debugger.js

import System;
import System.IO;

static function Log (debugMsg : String) {
      var path : String = Application.dataPath+"/debugLog.txt";
      var sw : StreamWriter = new StreamWriter(path, true);
      sw.WriteLine(debugMsg+"\n");
      sw.Close();
}

Don’t attach the Debugger.js anywhere, it works just by being at your Project Tab.

All you need to do from now on is use Debugger.Log( ) instead of Debug.Log( ). The debug messages will be sent to the debugLog.txt file in your game’s folder (it will create a new file if none exists).

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oh it works! Thank.

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sure Debug works.
it writes into the log thats created. On windows builds its output.txt in the xxx_data folder, on osx its in ~/Library/Logs/Unity/player.log

alternatively search the board for DebugStreamer for example

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@dreamora

Thx. you are right. It just written in output.txt

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You can always just click on “Open player log” in the editor; you don’t have to worry about where the debug.log output actually is.

–Eric

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that only works on osx. windows has no bloated ultra log folder like osx, its per application or not present at all if you disabled logging.

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Hi I wrote a blog post about how I’m showing all debug information in an on-screen GUI window. Hope that’s helpful.