Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott!

>   I was going to execute a MS-VC++ compiler command, not a DOS/Windows command.

>   I want to do as much as I could for capturing the stdout/stderr
> output and for capturing the exit status like I would as if I were on
> a Linux system, or the best that I can under these circumstances.

You can execute it from Windows batch file. With all the same benefits -
errorlevels, redirections and stuff.
Without having all the side-effects of path translation between Cygwin and
native applications.

That aside, I don't see any apparent technical issues.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 05.11.2013, <04:17>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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