Interacting between two different programs

[Jeremy DeHaan]

On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 07:45:01 UTC, yaz wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 06:08:28 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> I've been toying around with the idea of working on an IDE, 
>> mostly because I think it would be an interesting/fun project 
>> to work on. In any case, the only thing I cannot seem to wrap 
>> my head around is how programs like Code Blocks and Visual 
>> Studio, and various other IDE's interact with debuggers as if 
>> it isn't some external thing.
>>
>> How does someone have one program interact with another like 
>> this? Can you have one send its output to the other's input? 
>> Do they somehow share the same IO's? I've never had to write 
>> code that does anything like this so I'm you great minds out 
>> there can shed some light.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>
> You can use std.phobos.pipeProcess to interact with an external 
> process that you spawn. This works by connecting the standard 
> streams between the child and parent processes, so that they 
> can send and receive data.
> GDB provides an interface that can be used with this kind of 
> intercommunication. It is called GDB MI. You can read about it 
> here 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gdb-5.1.1/html_node/gdb_211.html#SEC216


This was exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

And thank you as well, Anthony. This is a lot of good information.