system() fails on pristine Windows systems

[René Berber]

Archie Warnock wrote:

[snip]
> So, what would be the right way to call an external program from a
> Cygwin program without installing Cygwin, if not system()?

I don't know if it works but I would try to use popen(), there's also exec() and
all it's relatives.

> I also find it somewhat puzzling that it works on my development
> machines even though /bin/sh isn't anywhere along in the path of the
> Windows command shell.

Registry perhaps, the cygwin1.dll has to set a sane environment for itself, it
probably gets the location of the Cygwin installation plus the mount table and
some environment variables.
-- 
René Berber


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