Installing colorifer or gcc-color?

[qwe]

Hey Guys,

This is my first time at using Linux and things have gone fairly smoothly until now, I am using Fedora 10 and I want to install either gcc-color or colorifer so that when I compile my programs on the command line any errors I get will be displayed in color instead of plain old black and white.

Can you please show me the method to installing either once of these programs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Qwe

[pete_1967]

Download the source and configure from: http://schlueters.de/colorgcc.html "Source" as the Perl script it is.

[qwe]

Should I just copy the file and run it, or do I need to be in a particular folder first?

[pete_1967]

Both the script and example config file are very well commented with usage instructions. But I'd put it in ~/bin or /usr/bin so that it becomes available from everywhere.

[qwe]

I think I followed the instructions downloaded and copied the files to ~/bin but it does not seem to be working. Isn't their an RPM package I could install instead?

[pete_1967]

What was the error message you got when you tried to run it?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=colorgcc for package.

[qwe]

Its not so much that I get an error as I need to type in colorgcc to compile the program instead of gcc, and if I type in colorg++ I get an error that says colorg++ command not found.

[leigh123linux]

http://www.console-colors.de/index.p...lors.Downloads


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[pete_1967]

Originally Posted by qwe

Its not so much that I get an error as I need to type in colorgcc to compile the program instead of gcc, and if I type in colorg++ I get an error that says colorg++ command not found.

It says it's not found because there is no such script/ program. Read the instructions in the file and you see that you have to symlink to your compilers and then run g++ like you would normally. But instead of running g++ directly it runs colorgcc which does its magic and passes control back to g++.

It's all explained in the file very clearly.

[qwe]

Thanks, but I am still having the same problem compiling I keep having to use colorgcc to compile instead of gcc.

[qwe]

How would I create a symlink? I just did this:
g++: /usr/bin/g++
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc
c++: /usr/bin/c++
cc: /usr/bin/cc

also can should the file extension remain .txt or should I change it to .pl?

[pete_1967]

Do this:

- Download the colorgcc perl script
- Save it somewhere safe.
- Copy it to ~/home/username/bin (to start with) (cp colorgcc.1.3.2.txt ~/bin/)
In terminal do:

cd ~/bin
mv colorgcc.1.3.2.txt colorgcc
chmod 0755 colorgcc

Then move to directory where your C++ source code is and run

colorgcc [your normal compiler options]

To make sure everything works, break your code and you'll see pretty coloured error messages.
You can then use the sample config file to customise your message colours (download and save it in same place where the original Perl script, then use the cp command to copy it your your $HOME (cp colorgccrc.txt ~/.colorgccrc)

Note that the dot in front of the newly named colorgccrc makes it "hidden", you will see it with "ls -a" command.

Once you're happy, you can move ~/bin/colorgcc to /usr/bin/ to make it available to everyone.