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RE: problem - system api on winnt
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- To: "'Guntupalli, Santhi'" <santhi dot guntupalli at digital dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:33:48 +0100
- Subject: RE: problem - system api on winnt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guntupalli, Santhi [mailto:santhi.guntupalli@digital.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:42 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: problem - system api on winnt
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I installed Cygwin Dll 1.3.6. I am working on Win NT.
> > I built the sources in cygwin sucessfully.
> > I have to use this application executable on some other win nt
> > system which does not have cygwin.
> >
> > When i run my application from winnt promt it is returning for
> > system api return code 127.
> > I copied only cygwin1.dll to that system.
> > This is sample program.
> > Implementation of copy command.
> >
> > sample.cpp:
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> >
> > int exit_code=::system("cp test.cpp test1.cpp");
> > cout<<exit_code;
> > }
> >
> > I built the sample.cpp in cygwin. i got the executable. when run
> > executable from cygwin prompt system api is executing the command
> > properly and returns exit_code as 0.
> >
> > When i copy the same executable to some other machine
> which does not
> > have cygwin and i run it from winnt cmd promt
> >
> > system api is returning error code as 127. It is not executing
> > system api.
> > cygwin1.dll is in path.
> > Not only cp command, it is returning same error code
> for all other
> > commands.
> >
> > What could be the problem. i need to copy any other
> cygwin dlls to
> > my application?
"cp" is a cygwin command, so no surprise if you can't execute it if cygwin
is not installed. You'd rather try to execute a WIN32 command (like copy).
HTH
Bernard
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
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e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
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