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From: Ted Byers <r DOT ted DOT byers AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: How do I run a program compiled in cygwin from a program that is running in a Windows CMD shell?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:13:34 +0000 (UTC)
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The program run, and works, but ...

I have a perl program running from a WIndows CMD shell, that needs to somehow 
run it in bash (with my usual environment when I run the bash shell)

If I run bash, I invoke my program my program using './qlt' followed by almost 
a dozen commandline arguments.

If I had compiled it using MSVC++, I could invoke it from my perl program 
using "my $op = `qlt a nb c args`;"

How do I modify what is within perl's backticks so that qlt is invoked as a 
child in my normal bash environment?  Can it be done?

I am not asking about building the program so it doesn't need to run within 
cygwin's bash.  I have other tools that let me do that if I must.  Rather, I 
want to make a child process that has the cygwin environemt even though the 
parent process does not.

Thanks

Ted


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