GCC Output color formatter

[mikejmoffitt]

The old version of GCC used with SGDK drives me insane because 1) SGDK spits out a lot of warnings unless you squash them with type casting on resources, and 2) there is no colorization to let you find the one error admist twenty warnings.

I put together a tiny python script towards which you can pipe GCC's error output:



https://github.com/Mikejmoffitt/gccerrc/

Install python3 if your distro hasn't already got it, and configure your makefile in a way that is similar to the usage example shown (on the line with $(CC), add 2>&1 | python3 gccerrc.py)

[mikejmoffitt]

I realize I should have put this in tools...

[tryphon]

Windows console supports color ?

[Sik]

Yeah (16 colors), although not through ANSI escape codes. This is Python though so maybe its API takes care of that anyway? (no idea how it works)

[tryphon]

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print ('\033[1m', end = "");

ANSI code, isn't it ?

[KanedaFr]

I never used this because Eclipse does it for me but did you look at
https://github.com/chinaran/color-compile ?
It seems to achieve the same thing (and even more ?)

[mikejmoffitt]

I have no idea if this will work well in a Windows workflow, so I can't comment on that. No real API is in use here, it's just ANSI escape sequences.

As for the other program, there are several which do similar functionality but I wanted this one as a Python script so when I go between a computer running Darwin and Linux I don't have to recompile the formatter or maintain multiple binaries.