On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 06:08:28 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
I've been toying around with the idea of working on an IDE,
mostly because I think it would be an interesting/fun project
to work on. In any case, the only thing I cannot seem to wrap
my head around is how programs like Code Blocks and Visual
Studio, and various other IDE's interact with debuggers as if
it isn't some external thing.
How does someone have one program interact with another like
this? Can you have one send its output to the other's input? Do
they somehow share the same IO's? I've never had to write code
that does anything like this so I'm you great minds out there
can shed some light.
Thanks in advance!
At a more fundamental level, you might want to read about fork(),
pipe(), execlp() UNIX-style system calls. Here's a nice
document: http://www.makelinux.net/alp/038. Given, this is
Unix-specific and Windows will be much different. However, you'll
find this low-level understanding useful when using the
higher-level APIs.
