[Dev-C++] MinGW port of gcc 3.2 and paths

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

Hello all,

I've downloaded "new" MinGW gcc 3.2 to use it instead of "old" Mingw gcc 
2.95.2.

As I happen to use "gcc" from the command line, I've noticed the following 
change.

Say that "c:\test\hello.cpp" is the famous "hello world" program, also, 
suppose the semicolon, after the string literal "Hello world!\n", is missing.

When the command:

gcc -c c:\test\hello.cpp

is issued, one expects an error message of the type:

FILE:LINE: MESSAGE

where FILE is:
c:\test\hello.cpp      if "old" gcc is used
c:/test/hello.cpp      if "new" gcc is used

On Win98SE, I would like to have paths written in Windows style, and so 
tried a simple pipe:

gcc -c c:\test\hello.cpp | reverse_slashes

where "reverse_slashes" is a program turning all slashes into backslashes.

It does not work, since,  gcc prints error messages on the standard error 
stream


The next thing I thought of is:

gcc -c c:\test\hello.cpp 2>&1 | reverse_slashes

but that does not work either, because "command.com" is not "bash"!

Any suggestion is welcome.
TIA

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gisan