[fpc-devel] FPDoc parser doesn't handle forward declarations properly?

[Sven Barth]

Am 08.12.2011 02:59, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
>
>> Wait, did you try this on FPC trunk sources ? That won't work.
>> 2.6.0 sources should be OK.
>
> I could build RTL and FCL docs from 2.4.2 without major problems (the
> trunk Makefile was not fully compatible with the old directory structure).
>
> But when I tried to build the LCL, fpdoc crashes badly in
> THTMLWriter.AppendProcType (SIGSEGV). I tried to catch this error by
> try-except, but then Windows kills fpdoc. Running from the commandline
> at least reveals the Element as "FontEnumProc".
> I'll have to research a bit more...
>
> The -v option should become more verbose, just for hunting such bugs.
> And the messages should go to stdout instead of stderr, at least on
> Windows (with poor redirection capabilities).


StdErr redirection works in Windows the same as on Unix systems.

c:\>someapp.exe > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt

Will result in the output being split into the two textfiles. You can 
also redirect only the StdErr.

See also: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490982.aspx

Regards,
Sven