Add a wrapper program for running linters which cannot receive stdin input on Windows.

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /init.vim
 /doc/tags
 .*
+*.obj

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 1. [Guidelines](#guidelines)
 2. [Creating Pull Requests](#pull-requests)
+3. [Creating Pull Requests](#compiling)
 
 <a name="guidelines"></a>
 
@@ -40,6 +41,21 @@ table and list.
 # 2.2. Adding New Options
 
 If you add new options to the plugin, make sure to document those new options in the [README.md](README.md) file, and also
-in the [help file](doc/ale.txt). Follow the format of other options in each. Global options should appear in the README 
+in the [help file](doc/ale.txt). Follow the format of other options in each. Global options should appear in the README
 file, and in the relevant section in the help file, and options specific to a particular linter should go in the section
 for that linter.
+
+<a name="compiling"></a>
+
+# 3. Compiling the Windows stdin wrapper
+
+To compile the stdin wrapper program for Windows, when updating the D program, you will need to compile the program with
+[LDC](https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc) in release mode. Download and install the Community edition of Visual Studio
+from [the Visual Studio website](https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/) first before installing LDC. LDC typically comes in
+a ZIP you can just extract somewhere.
+
+Make sure to compile with the 32-bit architecture flag, otherwise the EXE will not run on 32-bit machines.
+
+```
+ldc2 -m32 -Oz -release stdin_wrapper.d -of=stdin-wrapper.exe
+```

README.md

@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ name. That seems to be the fairest way to arrange this table.
 | Bourne Shell | [-n flag](http://linux.die.net/man/1/sh), [shellcheck](https://www.shellcheck.net/) |
 | C | [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/) |
 | CoffeeScript | [coffeelint](https://www.npmjs.com/package/coffeelint) |
-| CSS | [csslint](http://csslint.net/)^ |
-| Cython (pyrex filetype) | [cython](http://cython.org/)^ |
+| CSS | [csslint](http://csslint.net/) |
+| Cython (pyrex filetype) | [cython](http://cython.org/) |
 | D | [dmd](https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html)^ |
 | Fortran | [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/) |
-| Haskell | [ghc](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/)^ |
+| Haskell | [ghc](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/) |
 | HTML | [tidy](http://www.html-tidy.org/) |
 | JavaScript | [eslint](http://eslint.org/), [jscs](http://jscs.info/), [jshint](http://jshint.com/) |
 | JSON | [jsonlint](http://zaa.ch/jsonlint/) |
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ name. That seems to be the fairest way to arrange this table.
 | SASS | [sass-lint](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sass-lint) |
 | SCSS | [sass-lint](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sass-lint), [scss-lint](https://github.com/brigade/scss-lint) |
 | Scala | [scalac](http://scala-lang.org) |
-| TypeScript | [tslint](https://github.com/palantir/tslint)^ |
-| Vim | [vint](https://github.com/Kuniwak/vint)^ |
-| YAML | [yamllint](https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/)^ |
+| TypeScript | [tslint](https://github.com/palantir/tslint) |
+| Vim | [vint](https://github.com/Kuniwak/vint) |
+| YAML | [yamllint](https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/) |
 
 *^ Supported only on Unix machines via a wrapper script.*
 

plugin/ale/util.vim

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ function! s:FindWrapperScript()
         let path = expand(parent . '/' . 'stdin-wrapper')
 
         if filereadable(path)
+            if has('win32')
+                return path . '.exe'
+            endif
+
             return path
         endif
     endfor

stdin_wrapper.d

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+// Author: w0rp <devw0rp@gmail.com>
+// Description: This file provides a D program for implementing
+//              the stdin-wrapper on Windows.
+
+import std.algorithm;
+import std.array;
+import std.file;
+import std.process;
+import std.stdio;
+import std.path;
+
+@safe
+auto createTemporaryFilename(string fileExtension) {
+    import std.uuid;
+
+    string filename;
+
+    do {
+        const randomPart = randomUUID().toString.replace("-", "_");
+
+        filename = buildPath(tempDir(), "ale_" ~ randomPart ~ fileExtension);
+    } while (exists(filename));
+
+    return filename;
+}
+
+@trusted
+void readStdinToFile(ref File tempFile) {
+    stdin.byChunk(4096).copy(tempFile.lockingTextWriter());
+}
+
+// Expand program names like "csslint" to "csslint.cmd"
+// D is not able to perform this kind of expanstion in spawnProcess
+@safe
+string expandedProgramName(string name) {
+    auto extArray = environment["PATHEXT"].split(";");
+
+    foreach(pathDir; environment["PATH"].split(";")) {
+        foreach(extension; extArray) {
+            const candidate = buildPath(pathDir, name ~ extension);
+
+            if (exists(candidate)) {
+                return candidate;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // We were given a full path for a program name, so use that.
+    if (exists(name)) {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    return "";
+}
+
+@trusted
+int runLinterProgram(string[] args) {
+    const expandedName = expandedProgramName(args[0]);
+
+    writeln(expandedName);
+
+    if (expandedName) {
+        return wait(spawnProcess([expandedName] ~ args[1..$]));
+    }
+
+    return 1;
+}
+
+@safe
+int main(string[] args) {
+    const filename = createTemporaryFilename(args[1]);
+
+    auto tempFile = File(filename, "w");
+
+    scope(exit) {
+        tempFile.close();
+        remove(filename);
+    }
+
+    readStdinToFile(tempFile);
+    tempFile.close();
+
+    return runLinterProgram(args[2..$] ~ [filename]);
+}