Getting stdout and stderr for system calls on windows

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If anyone knows of a magic compatibility switch to cl or link that will
prevent this, I'm all ears. :slight_smile:

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Damphyr [mailto:damphyr@freemail.gr]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:01 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: getting stdout and stderr for system calls on windows

OK, I'm stuck with a pretty problem:
I need to drive a build process using make (dmake) from my
scripts and I
want to capture stdout and stderr as well as the return value
from dmake. Normally I would do it using Daniel Berger's
win32-popen3, but I have a
Windows Installer Ruby with VC++6.0 which nastily gives me a segfault
(properly documented in the README, but still a segfault :slight_smile:
). Recompiling Ruby is a no-no and changing VC compiler also a no-no.