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Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 04:19:33 +0400
- Subject: Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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