C++: executing other programs

[Mo McKinlay]

# Hi,
# 
# is there any possibility to execute other programs from within my C++-program ?
# (I use the g++-compiler for Windows)
# 
# Thanks and bye, Knorze

If you're using the cygwin-hosted compiler, you can use the spawn...()
variants - check out the cygwin documentation. Alternatively, you can use
the Win32 API and call WinExec() or ShellExecute() (See the Microsoft SDKs
on the MSDN website - http://msdn.microsoft.com ). If you want your code to
be portable, you could use fork() and the exec...() functions, but
this impairs performance on Win32, due to the lack of a native fork()
equivalent.

Note also that this list is for reporting bugs in the gcc family, not
asking for help with programming.

Regards,

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