ninja windows: suppress 'Creating library...' output

pylib/gyp/win_tool.py

Index: pylib/gyp/win_tool.py
diff --git a/pylib/gyp/win_tool.py b/pylib/gyp/win_tool.py
index ba2e86bcb57bbd738a14f395ae935b27f53d5511..331a655957c8dd71091366cf923f7a0b91441535 100644
--- a/pylib/gyp/win_tool.py
+++ b/pylib/gyp/win_tool.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ These functions are executed via gyp-win-tool when using the ninja generator.
 
 import os
 import shutil
+import subprocess
 import sys
 
 
@@ -49,6 +50,19 @@ class WinTool(object):
     else:
       shutil.copy2(source, dest)
 
+  def ExecLinkWrapper(self, *args):
+    """Filter diagnostic output from link that looks like:
+    '   Creating library ui.dll.lib and object ui.dll.exp'
+    This happens when there are exports from the dll or exe.
+    """
+    popen = subprocess.Popen(args,
+                             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                             stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+    out, _ = popen.communicate()
+    for line in out.splitlines():

[Nico, 2012/04/03 23:13:12]

You can just iterate over popen.stdout, which will yield the output in line form
i think. (and when you're done reading, popen.returncode is ready.) at least
that works on posix.

+      if not line.startswith('   Creating library '):
+        sys.stdout.write(line)
+    return popen.returncode
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))