From: "John A. Kaliski" <johnk AT krypton DOT mankato DOT msus DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: HELP - Running *.exe CGI's written in ANSI C off the web
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 01:27:43 -0700
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Jenda,

I think you must be right.  I was having the same problem with DJGPP &
CGI.  I switched
to MS Visual C++ and now everything works fine.  A Thousand thanks for
the info:-)

John


Jan Krynicky wrote:

> Visionary wrote:
> >
> > If anybody could help me with this, it would be much appreciated.
> >
> >         The situation:
> >
> >                 I have a Windows NT Pentium Pro running IAS, and
> PERL for Win32. Our
> > perl scripts work great, but when I try to run an *.exe CGI written
> in
> > C, (ie:  I reference the exe in my
> > <FORM ACTION="{path}/myfile.exe"></FORM> tag), I get an error saying
> the
> > proper headers could not be returned, yet the exe works ok if I run
> it
> > from the DOS window command line.
> >
> >         NOTE:   I compiled the exe with DJGPP - the GNU ANSI C
> compiler ported
> > over for the IBM PC DOS environment. I compiled it on the NT machine
>
> > under the DOS window.
> >
> > <snipped>
>
> Does the DJGPPP create DOS appilactions or WinNT Console applications?
>
> I was unable to use the first (Borland Pascal7.0 for DOS),
> but had no problems with the second (MSVC 4.0).
>
> HTH, Jenda