Re: [htdig-dev] ExternalParser.cc on win32

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 ka...@ga... wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While compiling htdig 3.2.0b5 on win 32 I found that method 'parse' of
> class 'ExternalParser' contains line:
>
> // NEAL - ENABLE/REWRITE THIS ASAP FOR WIN32
> #ifndef _MSC_VER //_WIN32
>
> I've made some changes to ExternalParser, to make it work under win32.
> There is no need to create another process or thread to run external
> parser - you can call:
> FILE *input = _popen((char *)cmdline, "rb" );
> that opens the pipe to read from.
>
> I've compiled that code succesfully and run htdig with some external
> parsers: antiword, xpdf and openoffice (under win2000).

  Hmmm.. interesting.  I will test that.  Please send us a patch.

  Thanks!

Neal Richter
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