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problem - system api on winnt
- From: "Guntupalli, Santhi" <santhi dot guntupalli at digital dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:11:30 +0530
- 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?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Santhi
>
>
>
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