Colorgcc could have a filter mode, reading gcc output from stdin and colorizing it. This allows the use of colorgcc only in particular occasions and also allows its use in constrained environments where the main gcc is not editable and gcc is called directly with its full path.

Even for an experienced Linux user and computer programmer myself (though perhaps not an expert Linux user yet) your installation instructions are insufficient. I couldn't even figure them out until I came across this article online: https://imranfanaswala.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/setting-up-colorgcc/

Please improve your installation instructions or point to this article in your readme.

Hey guys!

Great project here. The only thing keeping me from using it at work, where it would be great, is that we use a very involved compiling infrastructure and I'm not sure if replacing anything in my path will break things. For me, it would be easier to pass the output to colorgcc after the fact and have it color it then. Is it possible to do this?

I have installed colorgcc at me (Debian 10) but it does not color the output of gcc. What mechanism does it use to colorize the output?

Hello

Does it work ?

Can I do a local symlink because mipsel-linux-gcc and the colorgcc ?

Frédéric

I needed to further process the output of colorgcc with another perl script through piping, and ran across the problem that colorgcc doesn't color the output if the terminal is not STDOUT. Many standard Linux programs allow you to use the --color or --color=always flag which forces the output of colors anyway. Can this functionality be added?

in GCC 4.7.2

pragma message ("fixme: audit table->visitors")

produces:
poker.c: In function ‘pk_CheckWait’:
poker.c:191:11: note: #3 pragma message: fixme: audit table->visitors

On my system, it shows up in the same colour as error messages rather than either the same as warning or preferably it's own colour.

Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: colorgcc upgrade for localization of "warning"]
Date: 04/23/09 12:00:56 AM (Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:00:56 -0400)

Johannes,

Based on someone else's suggestion
(http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168709), I've updated colorgcc
to be language aware. However, I don't know perl. Do you know perl well
enough to clean up what I've done? Even if you don't, are you willing to
host the upgraded colorgcc on your site (once it is cleaned up)?

The modifications to the perl script are as follows:
Replace the regex that looks for "warning" with a variable. That
variable's value is retrieved from a file based on the current language
setting. If the language key is not found, a quick compile is done to
determine the value and it is appended to the lookup file.

Example:

LANG=en_us

in warnings_db.txt:
en_us=warning

It still needs some work to be more portable and to facilitate
installers. I've included the new function below.

Thanks

Subject: [Fwd: Undeliverable: colorgcc]
Date: 11/18/09 5:01:18 PM

Hi,

gcc4.5 is using a slightly different error formating (like adding column numbers), the script does not match this very well.