[Glade-users] Problem with glade/cygwin32 ?

[damon at karuna.uklinux.net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 20:28 +0200, Philippe Lefevre wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Newbie in glade and cygwin32, I get a problem that I do not understand 
> and for which I didn't find any explanation on the net.
>
> I've build a very simple test program (vf) with a button that raise a 
> signal to activate an other external program (tst).
>
> The called program tst.c is :
>         void main()
>         {
>           printf("Hello all\n");
>         }
>
> I updated the corresponding entry in the vf callbacks.c build by glade 
> with :
>
>         on_boutonSauvegarde_clicked (GtkButton *button, gpointer user_data)
>         {
>           int CR;
>           CR = system("/home/phl/Projects/vf/src/tst");
>           printf("CR = %d\n", CR);
>         }
>
> Launching vf and clicking on the button I get the following error :
>         bash-3.00$ ./vf
>         Le chemin sp?cifi? est introuvable.  (unable to find the 
> specified path)
>         CR = 1

Do you have to include the drive on windows, for absolute paths? e.g.

          CR = system("C:/home/phl/Projects/vf/src/tst");

Damon