Re: g_message and g_warning under Windows

[Richard Gipps <rgipps netspace net au>]

I am using the MinGW port of GCC and this doesn't seem to support 
dup2().  Tor which port of the GCC compiler are you using?  Is there 
another way to do this without using dup2() and open()?

At 23:10 14/02/05, you wrote:
> Richard Gipps writes:
>  > stream = freopen("error.log","w",stderr);
>  >
>  > g_message("g_message_test");
>  > fprintf(stderr,"fprintf_test");
>
>  > which sits in the init function for my main window class.  The fprintf
>  > statement works fine, but the g_message() function seems to do nothing.
>
> Hmm, sorry, actually what's needed is not freopen() but a
> dup2(). gmessages.c in 2.6 doesn't use stdio on Windows any longer,
> but plain write() to file descriptor 1 or 2, like on Unix.
>
> I.e. something like
>
> fd = open ("error.log", O_WRONLY);
> dup2 (fd, 2);
> g_message ("blah\n");
>
> should work, I hope.
>
> --tml