L.S.
I would like to compile C code by feeding it to gcc (or cc) from stdin,
instead of specifying an input file. What I want would result in a
command line like:
echo "ThisWouldNeedToBeCcode" | gcc -o out.o
(Note aside:
This may look as an awkward or even useless construct at first glance.
However that's not the point. I supplied this example invocation to keep
the case simple and to the point. In reality I want to invoke such a
command from a scripting language, where not using files for input does
make sense. I do not want to clutter this case with issues regarding the
scripting language.)
The above command line and several variants that I tried, evoke the
following complaint:
gcc: no input files
which, of course, is very much true.
Is reading from stdin simply not supported?
In case it is relevant, here's the output from "gcc -v":
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib
--enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking
--enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++
--with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared
--enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
Thanks in advance for any help,
Erik Leunissen
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