alright... heres my solution. I don't think it was the perl part that was so hard neccessarilly but there's a lot of weird/cool things you can do using ajax/dhtml. You should just be able to put these files in the same directory... and assuming your apache is ready to go, this should work.

if you have problems with this or need more help, let me know. i was very interested in this topic when you first made it... hope this helps. i hate to post so much JS on these forums... but here goes...



code.cgi 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use strict;

#getting code...
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $code = $cgi->param('code');

#making a temp file for the code
open(CPP, ">code.cpp");
print CPP $code;
close(CPP);

#compiling file with output to file
system("g++ -c code.cpp >& output.txt");

#HTTP headers
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "\n";

#printing output file to response header
open(OUTPUT, "<output.txt");
while(<OUTPUT>) {
   print $_ . "<BR>";
}

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code.html 

<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <SCRIPT type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

//request object
var req;

function load_code(code)
{
   
   //url and div
   var url="code.cgi";
   var results_div = document.getElementById('results');
   results_div.innerHTML = 'compiling...';


   // code for Mozilla, etc.
   if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
   {  
      req=new XMLHttpRequest();
      req.onreadystatechange=reqChange;
   }
   //code for IE
   else if (window.ActiveXObject)
   {
      req=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
   }
   //otherwise an error
   else {
      alert('unable to create xmlhttprequest object');
   }
   
   //using post method (allows for 2000+ chars)
   if(req) {
      req.open("POST",url,true);
      req.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-url
+encoded charset=UTF-8');
      req.send("code=" + escape(code) + '\n');
   }
}


//function called after perl script returns
function reqChange() {
// if xmlhttp shows "loaded"
if (req.readyState==4)
  {
  // if "OK"
  if (req.status==200)
    {
      //getting div and the response
      var result_div = document.getElementById('results'); 
      var response = req.responseText;

      //no response... no errors!
      if(response == "") {
         result_div.innerHTML = "There were no errors";
      }

      //otherwise output errors
      else {
         result_div.innerHTML = response;
      }  
   }

  //problem getting data...
  else
    {
    alert("Problem retrieving data")
    }
  }
}

      </SCRIPT>
      <TITLE>Compiler Test</TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
      <TABLE width="100%" border=0>
      <TR>
         <TD width="50%">
            <FORM name="compiler_form">
               <TEXTAREA name="code" rows="30" cols="50"></TEXTAREA><b
+r>
               <INPUT type="button" value="Compile" onClick='load_code
+(this.form.code.value)'>
            </FORM>
         </TD>
         <TD width="50%">
            <DIV id="results">Results</DIV>
         </TD>
      </TR>
      </TABLE>
   </BODY>
</HTML>

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In reply to Re: Accessing a C++ compiler through a CGI script by ickyb0d
in thread Accessing a C++ compiler through a CGI script by Spidy

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