Starting a New Process (IDE invokes compiler)

[Charles Pegge]

The IDE saves the source code to a temp file and invokes the compiler, with the file name in the commandl-ine.

In this example, there is no further interaction between IDE and compiler.

Code: OxygenBasic

1.  
2. /*
3. BOOL WINAPI CreateProcess(
4. 1  __in_opt     LPCTSTR lpApplicationName,
5. 2  __inout_opt  LPTSTR lpCommandLine,
6. 3  __in_opt     LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpProcessAttributes,
7. 4  __in_opt     LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpThreadAttributes,
8. 5  __in         BOOL bInheritHandles,
9. 6  __in         DWORD dwCreationFlags,
10. 7  __in_opt     LPVOID lpEnvironment,
11. 8  __in_opt     LPCTSTR lpCurrentDirectory,
12. 9  __in         LPSTARTUPINFO lpStartupInfo,
13. 10 __out        LPPROCESS_INFORMATION lpProcessInformation
14. );
15. */
16.  
17.  
18.   sys hchw[128],nchw 'child windows
19.  
20.  
21.   function Exec(string s)
22.   '======================
23.  STARTUPINFO infs
24.   PROCESS_INFORMATION infp
25.   string fi="_.o2bas"
26.   putfile fi,s
27.   CreateProcess "co2.exe","co2.exe "+fi ,0,0,0,0,0,0,@infs,@infp
28.   CloseHandle infp.hProcess
29.   CloseHandle infp.hThread
30.   end function
31.  

Charles