Programmer's notepad not writing output?

Question

I have been using Programmer notepad for a while, I find this to be an amazingly simple tool, and I prefer to use it in projects where I know that I don’t need most of the standard IDE overhead. However, I recently encountered this problem when running a program in Windows Vista.

I found that when I run the built-in "make" command, the output from make.exe does not appear in the window as intended. The error code is captured, but the output is always completely empty, regardless of what the program actually displays. (Running the program from the command line shows the output just thin, as well as launching it without using the "Image Output" option.) Does anyone know what is the reason for this?

thank

Answer 1

Well, my partial solution to this problem was to switch compilers. Programmer Notepad does not seem to like the output from DJGPP on Windows Vista, possibly because DJGPP is not a full port and has all kinds of other problems. The solution is to simply use a different compiler. We are now using MinGW for this project, and this solved most of our problems as soon as we figured out the linker problems.

However, if someone has a way to get DJGPP to work with PN (I know there are some more projects that rely on him), it would be useful to know.