Re: [Mingw-users] hmmm... capturing output??

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zodiaq" <zo...@as...>
To: "MinGW users" <min...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: [Mingw-users] hmmm... capturing output??


> Hello All MinGW users,
>
>   I need for my small project a way to capture data sended to standard
> output... for example when calling c++.exe compiler I want to capture and
> process any output it sends... I know that I have to use CreateProcess
with
> special STARTUPINFO structure - special in way that uses my handle for
> standard output - so hStdOutput points to my handle and dwFlags uses
> STARTF_USESTDHANDLES but how to create handle that would take output from
> c++.exe and then how to get resulting text I don't know... For sure some
of
> you encountered my problem and any road signs where to look for more info
> would be highly appreciated...
>
> -- 
> regards, Zodiaq

You might like to try using _popen() instead of CreateProcess() first,
because if it does what you need then it should be a lot simpler. I haven't
tried the CreateProcess() way but I guess the handles you use would be
created using CreatePipe().

Luke