On 15 September 2012 18:24, Laszlo Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was writting a compiler for a new language, and I was having problems with > Geany. Whenever I tried to run "make" (e.g. press F8 in geany) there were > three cases: > > * no error > * error in the compiler program -> error message was a Python traceback > * error in the source file being compiled by the compiler -> error message > was a gnu formatted error message. > > I asked about this problem here before: what kind of regular expression > should I use so that Geany finds both errors? The answer was that it is > almost impossible, because Geany can only handle a single regular > expression. > > Today I came up with another solution. It is a tiny wrapper program that can > run any other command. It monitors the data that is flowing through stderr > and stdout. It can run several different regular expressions on the output, > and convert them into standardized format. > > It is trivial to change this program so that you parse the compiler output > from program code (instead of a regular expression). It allows you to parse > the output of almost anything, including cases when the information is > spread in multiple lines. > > If anyone is interested, the "program" is attached. I'm not sure if it worth > adding it to the Geany wiki. >
Ingenious solution Laslo. I think it is worth putting on the wiki. A few projects may use more than one language and compiler. Since at the moment we don't want to complicate Geany for a rare use-case this gives a solution for those projects. Cheers Lex > Best, > > Laszlo > > > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany > _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
