Back after about 18 months without simutrans and working on another laptop as before -> setting up environment.
Running Windows 8, MSVC 2013 : compiling and running latest svn (and local patches) is working OK.
Trouble to get debug output working again.
Should be "simutrans -debug 3" but when I enter that in the cmd window, simutrans just starts "normally".
Same with the current nightly binary version I tried.
Must have missed an (obvious?) part of documentation.
Any hint appreciated.
I don't remember if it is "-log 3 -debug" or "-log -debug 3", but I'm pretty sure you must have "-log" in there somehow.
Tried all those combinations without success.
Strange is that when I start with "simutrans -h" which should display command line options it just returns without any output.
Looks like -h/--help prints to stdout, and is therefore not visible on Windows (unless you explicitly chose to build Simutrans as a console application and not a GUI application).
It is "-debug 3 -log". The log file is in the simutrans directory. Something like "My Documents/simutrasnn"
Looked for the simu.log in the wrong (.exe) directory instead of the Documents/simutrans.
Solved, thanks for the help