How to Integrate C++ compiler in Visual Studio 2008

Hi,

Can someone help me with this issue?

I currently working on my project for final year of my honors degree. And we are developing a application to evaluate programming assignments of student ( for 1st year student level)

And we are working with Visual Studio 2008.

I just want to know how to integrate C++ compiler using C# code to compile C++ code.

In our case we are loading a student C++ code into text area, then with a click on button we want to compile the code. And if there any compilation errors it will be displayed on text area nearby. (Interface is attached herewith.)

And finally it able to execute the code if there aren't any compilation errors. And results will be displayed in console.

We were able to do this with a C#(C# code will be loaded to text area intead of C++ code) code using inbuilt compiler. But still not able to do for C# code.

Can anyone suggest a method to do this? It is possible to integrate external compiler to VS C# code? If possible how to achieve it?

Very grateful if anyone will contributing to solve this matter?

This is code for Build button which we proceed with C# code compiling

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CodeDomProvider codeProvider = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("csharp");
            string Output = "Out.exe";
            Button ButtonObject = (Button)sender;

            rtbresult.Text = "";
            System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters parameters = new CompilerParameters();
            //Make sure we generate an EXE, not a DLL
            parameters.GenerateExecutable = true;
            parameters.OutputAssembly = Output;
            CompilerResults results = codeProvider.CompileAssemblyFromSource(parameters, rtbcode.Text);

            if (results.Errors.Count > 0)
            {

                rtbresult.ForeColor = Color.Red;
                foreach (CompilerError CompErr in results.Errors)
                {
                    rtbresult.Text = rtbresult.Text +
                                "Line number " + CompErr.Line +
                                ", Error Number: " + CompErr.ErrorNumber +
                                ", '" + CompErr.ErrorText + ";" +
                                Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                //Successful Compile
                rtbresult.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
                rtbresult.Text = "Success!";
                //If we clicked run then launch our EXE
              if (ButtonObject.Text == "Run") Process.Start(Output); // Run button
            }


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Do you get any errors when you switch your CodeDom to "cpp" or "c++" ?

You can find an example of listing all supported languages here.

Seems not working with both ("cpp") or ("c++") . I replaced the code with those but no result. I think there will be very small modification to do. But still cannot grasp any idea to solve the issue.

Anyway thanks for concern.

Appreciate if u keep trying to figure the issue out.

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If you know at design time which code provider is to be used, you should create an instance of that code provider rather than use the CreateProvider method.

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Inheritance Hierarchy

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System.Object
  System.MarshalByRefObject
    System.ComponentModel.Component
      System.CodeDom.Compiler.CodeDomProvider
        Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider
        Microsoft.JScript.JScriptCodeProvider
        Microsoft.VisualBasic.VBCodeProvider

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so as I see it - for c++ - run the command line compiler and parse its output like the IDE does it

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so as I see it - for c++ - run the command line compiler and parse its output like the IDE does it

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You could actually do this from a batch file as well. You can run the compiler from the command line and it will spit all the errors and warnings to std::out. MSDN has a lot of documentation about how to execute the compiler from the command line and what each argument does. I use this a lot to create batch files to build solutions and to build components without having to load said component solutions up in the IDE.

To Bubba:

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Originally Posted by Bubba

You could actually do this from a batch file as well.

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private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                FileName = "cmd",
                Arguments = @"/k ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat""",
            };
            Process.Start(psi);

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You mention about this kind of solution to button click?

Yes, that kind of a solution would work. Well, you can use a much simpler scripting language and do this in 1-2 lines, but whatever works for you.

What will you mean by "much simple scripting language"?