Colours don't work in command prompt on Windows

[woubuc]

The colours are displayed as code in the standard command prompt on Windows 10.

What it looks like:

What it should look like (using Cmder):

Code used

I know the cmd supports colours, since Cargo displays colours just fine.

[noxabellus]

Running my exe with this crate, in the integrated powershell terminal in vs code on windows, if I run via cargo run, the coloring works, however if I run the executable directly it does not

[noxabellus]

For what its worth, I added this to the top of my main and it works now:

#[cfg(windows)] unsafe {
  let handle = winapi::um::processenv::GetStdHandle(winapi::um::winbase::STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
  let mut original_mode: winapi::shared::minwindef::DWORD = 0;
  winapi::um::consoleapi::GetConsoleMode(handle, &mut original_mode);
  winapi::um::consoleapi::SetConsoleMode(handle, winapi::um::wincon::ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING | original_mode);
}

[kurtlawrence]

Hi @noxabellus and @woubuc, there is already a function to do that: set_virtual_terminal

It doesn't show up in the docs unless you set the platform to windows