From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wait for compile to finish Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:31:42 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129826504 25586 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2005 16:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 18:41:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESdSL-0007U3-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:39:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESdSK-0003KT-Nv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESdS1-0003Je-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESdS1-0003JS-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESdS0-0003JJ-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ESdS0-0004i2-UN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ESdMr-0005Oq-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:34:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30408 Archived-At: Toto wrote: > I would like to have a function, which runs the program, that belongs to > the buffer i'm editing or compile it first if it isn't done already. > To make it more clear. Say, i'm editing helloworld.c and i call this > function, it should execute helloworld.exe (yes, i'm on windows). If > there is no hello.exe in the current directory (or it is older than the > source file) emacs should compile it first and run it afterwards. > > For this purpose I have come up with a funcion similar to the one below. > > But: Compile is asynchronous, so this funcion tries to execute the exe > file before the compilation finishes (and the exe is created). > > My question is: > Is there a synchronous version of compile? Or how can i determine that > compile has finished (and get the result of the compilation - success > or failure)? > > The (pseudo) code is as follows: > > (defun run-compiled-program (params) > "Runs the program with the same name as the buffer." > (interactive "sRun with parameter(s): ") > (setq exe (concat > (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name)) > ".exe" > ) > ) > (if (not (file-newer-than-file-p exe (buffer-file-name))) > (compile-this-buffer) ;; using the compile funcion > ) > (shell-command > (concat exe " " params) > ) > ) > ;; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-03-08 on S8472 Use the make utility to compile your program before you run it: (defun run-buffer-program (&optional args) "Compile the visited file into a program and run it with command line ARGS." (interactive "sArgs: ") (let ((program (file-name-sans-extension (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))) ;; What is the list of systems that require the .exe extension? (when (memq system-type '(dos)) (setq program (concat program ".exe"))) (shell-command (format "make %s && ./%s %s" program program args)))) -- Kevin Rodgers