[Geany-Devel] Ping on Bug #943 - windows build command

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-10-08 10:28 AM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:28:49 -0700
> Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Any chance you could find time to review and test Geany's implementation
>> to see if anything looks fishy?
>
> I can simply test FiF with regex = ".", which will generate a lot of
> output quite fast. Without the SYNC_SPAWN patches, build.c and search.c
> async executions are identical (except that build checks if the
> returned pid after successful spawn async is > 0, but still sets the
> channels if it's not - I wonder why).
>

Can you get grep to write a lot of stuff to both stdout and stderr in 
the same run though? What about wrapping grep in a shell script that 
uses `tee` (or equivalent) to dump the output to both streams?

>> GTK+ 2.22 is over 3 years old by now, FWIW.
>
> I'm using 2.22 under win~1 too, and don't think it will have any
> problems with async exec, but we'll see.
>

Yeah, just pointing it out because 3 years is a lot of code churn for a 
project like GTK+. There's been ~15.5 thousand commits[1] since the 
2.22.0 tag :)

>> OT: Do you have any idea how to make g_spawn_async_with_pipes() to not
>> open a "Command Prompt" window on Windows? My new plugin filters the
>> document text through a subprocess very often and the popup console
>> windows are super annoying :)
>
> [snip]
>
> Last, you can create a small GUI subsystem wrapper which runs your
> console application with CreateProcess(), and use either the creation
> flags or the startup information to hide or minimize it.
>

Hmm, this is probably the best and easiest solution, thanks for the idea!

Cheers,
Matthew Brush

[1]: According to `git rev-list 2.22.0^..HEAD | wc -l`, not sure if 
that's the right way, my gitfu is weak.