Re: Redirecting output of Make in cmd console of Win2k

[Greg Chicares]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: "Chris Marshall" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:16:31 -0400
> >
> > I've tried to use the basic piping and redirection methods in cmd.exe to
> > redirect the output of make to a file, and it does not seem to work. I am
> > using the make in the MinGW distribution. Does make write it's output to
> > STDOUT?
> 
> Make writes its normal output to stdout, and its error messages to
> stderr.  There are also messages from the programs invoked by Make,
> but Make doesn't change that in any way: it's entirely up to those
> programs where they write their output.
> 
> If your shell is cmd.exe, you should be able to redirect stderr with
> the 2> operator.

And if your shell can't do that, a workaround is described here:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-02/msg00603.html