[Dev-C++] Reading GCC output

[Brian C. B. <bcb...@ya...>]

Hi,
I am trying to read the output of the gcc compiler like Bloodshed Dev-C++
does and am not being successful. I tried looking in the online gcc manual
for command line options that might direct the output into a file, but did
not find such an option. I also read that gcc uses temp files to communicate
between the compiler, assembler, linker, etc, but could not find any
information on how to find those files to read them. I also tried the using
the "-pipe" command and that did not work;  I also tried the following code
to pipe the output into my program. It works for other console programs but
outputs garbage when I try to read the output of gcc (perhaps because gcc
calles other proccesses? ):

long i;
HANDLE rh;
HANDLE wh;
STARTUPINFO stinfo;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pinfo;
DWORD bytesread;
char buf[65536];
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sattr;
akostring output;
HANDLE oldwh;
    ZeroMemory(&sattr, sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES));
 sattr.nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
 sattr.lpSecurityDescriptor = 0;
 sattr.bInheritHandle = true;
CreatePipe(&rh, &wh, &sattr, 0);
oldwh = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, wh);
    ZeroMemory(&stinfo, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));
 stinfo.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
 stinfo.lpReserved = 0;
 stinfo.lpReserved2 = 0;
 stinfo.cbReserved2 = 0 ;
 stinfo.lpDesktop = 0;
 stinfo.lpTitle = 0;
    stinfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
    stinfo.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;
if(!CreateProcess(0, "C:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\AkoClass\\compiler\\bin\\g++
\"C:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\AKOCLASS\\OUTPUT.cpp\" -c -s -mwindows -O1 -O3 -fexpens
ive-optimizations -IC:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\AkoClass\\compiler\\INCLUDE\\ -IC:\\W
INDOWS\\TEMP\\AkoClass\\compiler\\INCLUDE\\G__~1 -IC:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\AkoCla
ss\\compiler\\INCLUDE\\ -LC:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\AkoClass\\compiler\\LIB\\ -BC:\
\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\AkoClass\\compiler\\BIN", 0, 0, false,  CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE |
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0,0, &stinfo, &pinfo)){
MessageBox(0,"Error","Failed",0);
}
    else{
    WaitForSingleObject(pinfo.hProcess, INFINITE );
 CloseHandle(wh);
 SetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, oldwh);
 output = "";
ReadFile(rh, &buf, 65536, &bytesread, NULL);
  output = (char*) &buf;
    CloseHandle(pinfo.hProcess);
    CloseHandle( pinfo.hThread );
}
//Note: akostring is a string class.
// output now contains garbage or nothing

Could anybody help me with this problem? Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Brian

"Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"  Job 2:10



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