Is it possible to run iarbuild.exe in dry-run mode - build

I would like to know if it possible to run iarbuild.exe in dry-run mode like '-n' in Make ?
from Make help :
-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
Don't actually run any commands; just print them.
I did not notice for any option in the usage message, maybe a tag in the ewp (IAR project file) ?
Or is there an option to create compilation database ?

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How to evaluate an expression to be used for a gdb monitor command?

Inside a scripted gdb session I want to use monitor <cmd> where cmd should contain the address of a symbol. For example:
monitor foobar &myVariable
should become to:
monitor foobar 0x00004711
Because the remote side cannot evaluate the expression. Whatever I tried, the string "&myVariable" gets sent instead of the address.
I played around with convenience variables and stuff, but this is the only workaround I found:
# write the command into a file and execute this file
# didn't find a direct way to include the address into the monitor command
set logging overwrite on
set logging on command.tmp
printf "monitor foobar 0x%08x\n", &myVariable
set logging off
source command.tmp
Any ideas to solve this in a more elegant way?
The simplest way to do this is to use the gdb eval command, which was introduced for exactly this purpose. It works a bit like printf:
(gdb) eval "monitor foobar %p", &myVariable
(I didn't actually try this, so caution.)
If your gdb doesn't have eval, then it is on the old side. I would suggest upgrading.
If you can't upgrade, then you can also script this using Python.
If your gdb doesn't have Python, then it is either very old (upgrade!) or compiled without Python support (recompile!).
If you can't manage to get either of these features, then I am afraid the "write out a script and source it" approach is all that is left.

How can I find why system can not run my application?

I have a c++ program that run a command and pass some arguments to it. The code is as follow:
int RunApplication(fs::path applicationPathName,std::string arguments)
{
std::string applicationShortPath=GetShortFileName(applicationPathName);
std::string cmd="\""+applicationShortPath +"\" "+ arguments+" >>log.txt 2>&1 \"";
std::cout<<cmd<<std::endl;
int result=std::system(cmd.c_str());
return result;
}
When I run system command, the cmd window appears shortly and then closes, but the result is 1 and the cmd was not run (the command should generate output which is not generated).
To check that the cmd is correct, I stopped the application just before system line and copy/ paste cmd content to a cmd window and it worked.
I am wondering how can I find why application is not run in system()?
the cmd has this value just before running it:
"D:/DEVELO~3/x64/Debug/enfuse.exe" -w --hard-mask --exposure-weight=1 --saturation-weight=0.328 --contrast-weight=0.164 -o "C:/Users/m/AppData/Local/Temp/1.tif" "C:/Users/m/AppData/Local/Temp/1.jpg" "C:/Users/m/AppData/Local/Temp/2.jpg" >>log.txt 2>&1 "
How can I find why it is not working?
Is there any way that I set the system so it doesn't close cmd window so I can inspect it?
is there any better way to run a command on OS?
Does Boost has any solution for this?
Edit
After running it with cmd /k, I get this error message:
The input line is too long.
How can I fix it other than reducing cmd line?
There are two different things here: if you have to start a suprocess, "system" is not the best way of doing it (better to use the proper API, like CreateProcess, or a multiplatform wrapper, but avoid to go through the command interpreter, to avoid to open to potential malware injection).
But in this case system() is probably the right way to go since you in fact need the command interpreter (you cannot manage things like >>log.txt 2>&1 with only a process creation.)
The problem looks like a failure in the called program: may be the path is not correct or some of the files it has to work with are not existent or accessible with appropriate-permission and so on.
One of the firt thing to do: open a command prompt and paste the string you posted, in there. Does it run? Does it say something about any error?
Another thing to check is how escape sequence are used in C++ literals: to get a '\', you need '\\' since the first is the escape for the second (like \n, or \t etc.). Although it seems not the case, here, it is one of the most common mistakes.
Use cmd /k to keep the terminal: http://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html
Or just spawn cmd.exe instead and inspect the environment, permissions, etc. You can manually paste that command to see whether it would work from that shell. If it does, you know that paths, permssions and environment are ok, so you have some other issue on your hands (argument escaping, character encoding issues)
Check here How to execute a command and get output of command within C++ using POSIX?
Boost.Process is not official yet http://www.highscore.de/boost/process/

Wmic /format switch invalid XSL?

I have a quick question, should be relatively simple for those who have some more experience in WMI-command processor than I do (and since I'm an absolute beginner thats not hard :-) )
I fail to understand why wmic /format switch works the way it does. I open up cmd.exe and type
wmic process list brief /format:htable > processlist.html
this does exactly what I want and no bothers further on. Whereas if I go to wmic processor, and try to execute the same command exactly as above...
wmic:root\cli>process list brief /format:htable > processlist.html
I receive the error tag: "Invalid XSL format (or) file name."
Here goes the screenshot. Note I have already copied XSL files from wbem to sys32 dir
Can someone explain to me why these 2 commands that for me look exactly the same, with the only difference that one is executed outside wmic environment and the other one is from inside, the latter one doesn't work? I just fail to understand it.
Please advise so I can comprehend this a bit better! :-)
Try this
copy /y %WINDIR%\system32\wbem\en-US\*.xsl %WINDIR%\system32\
And then
wmic:root\cli>process list brief /format:htable.xsl > processlist.html
Note the presence of the extension after "htable"
You are attempting to use CMD.EXE > redirection while you are within the interactive WMIC context. That can't work.
You can use the WMIC /output:filename switch while in interactive mode. Each subsequent command will overwrite the output of the previous command. You can get multiple commands to go to the same file by using /append:filename instead. You can reset the output back to stdout using /output:stdout.
/output:processlist.html
process list brief /format:htable
/output:stdout
Did you try specifying a full path in the wmic:root\cli>process call? My bets are that the first worked because it output the file to the current directory.

Mkdir over SSH with Python does not work

I'm trying to create a new dir via SSH with a python script. When i try my commands by using the Python command line it just works. But when I try to do the same by a script it does not create the new 'test' folder (I even copy/paste the commands in the script into the Python cmd to verify they are right and there they work). So any ideas why it does not work by script?
The used code:
child = pexpect.spawn('ssh 192.168.56.101 -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no')
child.expect=('password:')
child.sendline('MyPwd')
child.sendline('mkdir /home/myUser/Desktop/test')
Seems to work when I just add another line
for example
child.sendline('\n')
so the entire script is
child = pexpect.spawn('ssh 192.168.56.101 -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no')
child.expect=('password:')
child.sendline('MyPwd')
child.sendline('mkdir /home/myUser/Desktop/test')
child.sendline('\n')
What I usually do to solve this issue is sync-ing with host machine. After I send something to the machine, I expect an answer, which usually translates in the machine's prompt. So, in your case, I would go for something like this:
child = pexpect.spawn('ssh 192.168.56.101 -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no')
child.expect('password:')
child.sendline('MyPwd')
child.expect('YourPromptHere')
child.sendline('mkdir /home/myUser/Desktop/test')
child.expect('YourPromptHere')
You can just replace YourPromptHere with the prompt of the machine, if you are running the script on a single target, or with a regular expression (eg. "(\$ )|(# )|(> )").
tl;dr : To summarize what I said, you need to wait until the previous action was finished until sending a new one.

Run LLVM pass with opt

I have just started to work with LLVM. I have wrote my own Hello pass, which worked fine.
Now I want to run opt with the stack protector pass, from StackProtector.cpp, but I am having trouble with that. When I look at the source code, it looks like I should use the flag -stack-protector:
INITIALIZE_PASS(StackProtector, "stack-protector", "Insert stack protectors", false, false)
But this flag is not recognized by opt.
I am not sure which file to "load", as it is not as simple as loading my own LLVMHello.so file and I could not find a StackProtector.so file; I believe this might be the problem.
Edit:
I finally got an answer from LLVMDev. Actually, the pass I wanted to run is performed by llc, not opt. I could not find the option -stack-protector, though, with
llc --help
because this option is hidden. If instead I do
llc --help-hidden
it is shown that the pass is there, and I just need to run
llc -print-before=stack-protector <input>
First you add in your pass :
static RegisterPass<StackProtector> X("StackProtector", "Insert stack protectors", false, false);
Second, in the terminal when you run the pass on a target file, after you run make, you have something like:
//home/YOURNAME/llvm/Release+Asserts/bin/opt -load //home/YOURNAME/llvm/Release+Asserts/lib/StackProtector.so -StackProtector //home/YOURNAME/llvm/tools/clang/woRKSPACE/Test.bc
where Test.bc is your target code. Also, be aware: in your Makefile, don't forget to add LIBRARYNAME = StackProtector.
Also, be aware if the pass in not already registered (if so, you will get a segfault error)