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[Dev-C++] How to execute external programs ?

[Alain P. <ala...@ge...>]

Hi all,

I need ,under Windows, to execute an external program. To be more precise, I need to start a file as Widows do it when I doubli-click on it. The final goal is to start a remote connection.

I did a symbolic link on c : "c:\myconnection.lnk". I first tried standard linux functions (execl, etc.) on the file, but nothing happened when I do :
** execl("c:\myconnection.lnk", "");

I think this is because I didn't start an exe.
Then, I tried to use windows specific functions :

** WinExec("c:\MozillaFirebird.exe", SW_SHOWNORMAL);

But nothing happened. I think the problem is the same : the file is not executable.

Does someone have an Idea how I could do that ?

Thank you very much for any proposition.

Alain Paschoud.

Re: [Dev-C++] How to execute external programs ?

[Ewald H. <hor...@te...>]

Here is a quick and dirty solution for Win32.

  ShellExecute(NULL, "open","c:\\toets.bmp", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);


ShellExecute is a Win32 API function, outdated, but it works for me.

Regards
Ewald Horn