Re: [gtkmm] Trouble spawning a process

[Anastasios Bassoukos <abas aix meng auth gr>]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 02:04, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> I'm new to GTK, and I am having trouble spawning a
> process.  I'm getting this error "abnormal program
> termination" when I use the following code.  Can
> anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? 
>
> I'm using Windows with GTK 2.2.4.1  and GTKMM 2.2.8.1.
>  Everything is installed correctly since I'm able to
> compile GTKMM apps successfully.  I just want to be
> able to fork processes in a cross-platform way using
> GLIB.  The documentation for forking processes in GLIB
> is sparse.
>
> Quan
>
> ----------- below is code --------------
>
> string filename="helloworld.exe",
> path="D:\\Dev-Cpp\\projects\\";
>
>   vector<string> filename_arg, env_arg;
>
>   filename_arg.push_back(filename);
>   env_arg.push_back(path);
>
>   Glib::spawn_async_with_pipes("", filename_arg);
I think that you may want either
    Glib::spawn_async(path, filename_arg);
or
    Glib::spawn_async(path, filename_arg,Glib::SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH);

Not that I'd have anything to do with Windows programming .....

HTH,
Tassos

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