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Re: 1.7.5: running in a non cygwin command prompt
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http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL
Thanks.]
On 2010-07-08 01:30Z, Shalomov, Inessa A (US SSA) wrote:
> I am trying to get the system() call working in my driver which I am
> running in a DOS terminal. For the sake of not porting out all of
> cygwin libraries and executables, I am trying to narrow down to a set
> of dll's and exe's required for my driver and only include those in
> my path.
If you want as few Cygwin dependencies as possible...
> 3) If the system() call doesn't work when used in a non-cygwin
> environment, is there a windows native system() equivalent call I
> can use?
...and a native program with no Cygwin dependencies would be ideal...
> retval = system("HelloWorld.exe");
...and all you really need to do is invoke a program, then I suggest
MinGW gcc (or Cygwin's old gcc-3 with '-mno-cygwin'). It provides a
non-Cygwin implementation of the standard C system() function. There
won't be any runtime dependencies except for dlls provided by the OS:
$cygcheck ./run_hello.exe
.\run_hello.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\System32\msvcrt.dll
For fancier needs, consider the msw CreateProcess() system call.
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