> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damphyr [mailto:damphyr / freemail.gr] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:01 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: getting stdout and stderr for system calls on windows
> 
> 
> OK, I'm stuck with a pretty problem:
> I need to drive a build process using make (dmake) from my 
> scripts and I 
> want to capture stdout and stderr as well as the return value 
> from dmake. Normally I would do it using Daniel Berger's 
> win32-popen3, but I have a 
> Windows Installer Ruby with VC++6.0 which nastily gives me a segfault 
> (properly documented in the README, but still a segfault :) 
> ). Recompiling Ruby is a no-no and changing VC compiler also a no-no.

If anyone knows of a magic compatibility switch to cl or link that will
prevent this, I'm all ears. :)

Dan