Since windows 10 release v1511, the windows console has had support for VT100 escape sequences. We should try to enable this, and utilize it where possible.
gcc/ChangeLog: * diagnostic-color.cc (should_colorize): Enable processing of VT100 escape sequences on windows consoles Signed-off-by: Peter Damianov <peter0...@disroot.org> --- gcc/diagnostic-color.cc | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/diagnostic-color.cc b/gcc/diagnostic-color.cc index f01a0fc2e37..0a4845406f5 100644 --- a/gcc/diagnostic-color.cc +++ b/gcc/diagnostic-color.cc @@ -213,12 +213,22 @@ should_colorize (void) pp_write_text_to_stream() in pretty-print.cc calls fputs() on that stream. However, the code below for non-Windows doesn't seem to care about it either... */ - HANDLE h; - DWORD m; + HANDLE handle; + DWORD mode; + BOOL isconsole; - h = GetStdHandle (STD_ERROR_HANDLE); - return (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) && (h != NULL) - && GetConsoleMode (h, &m); + handle = GetStdHandle (STD_ERROR_HANDLE); + isconsole = GetConsoleMode (handle, &mode); + + if (isconsole) + { + /* Try to enable processing of VT100 escape sequences */ + mode |= ENABLE_PROCESSED_OUTPUT | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING; + SetConsoleMode (handle, mode); + } + + return (handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) && (handle != NULL) + && isconsole; #else char const *t = getenv ("TERM"); /* emacs M-x shell sets TERM="dumb". */ -- 2.39.2