I'm making a command-line tool in Xcode, and want to call terminal commands with my C++ code.
I found the system() function can run terminal commands. And I know that the commands I want work in my Terminal. But these commands are not working the same way when I call them with system() in Xcode.
For example, I tried calling the brew command in Xcode.
system("brew");
I expect the output to be the same as when I type brew into my terminal:
Example usage:
brew search [TEXT|/REGEX/]
...etc
but the actual output in Xcode is sh: brew: command not found.
Why is system() acting differently than terminal? Should I be using a different function?
system does not load your shell's configuration files, and that's where /usr/local/bin is added to the PATH environment variable.
(That directory is not included by default on OS X.)
The simplest solutions are probably to either use the full path, or start XCode from the terminal so it inherits your shell's PATH.
(More details about how PATH works, and environment variables in general, can be found in any introduction to Unix-y systems.)
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I'm using cygwin and g++ under Windows 7 to compile my project. I've made a makefile to compile the project under Ubuntu. This is all working so far.
A function calls the Libre Office to convert some files. For this purpose i pass a command string to system().
Symptom
When I use the executable generated with cygwin a error occurs:
sh: C:\..\LibreOffice 3.6\program\soffice --headless --convert-to png:'draw_png_Export' add1.fodg : command not found
What irritates me is the fact, that it seems the command is passed to sh and not cmd
How can I make sure the executable build for Windows uses no sh?
I think you have two options.
First, stick with sh used by system() and use the path to LibreOffice in POSIX format.
C:\..\LibreOffice 3.6\program\soffice
will become
/cygdrive/c/../LibreOffice 3.6/program/soffice
You can also use the cygpath utility for this, as well.
The other option is to call LibreOffice via cmd:
cmd /c C:\..\LibreOffice 3.6\program\soffice args...
I have the following error in Eclipse CDT (using Windows 7). How to correct it?
Error: Program "make" not found in PATH
PATH=[C:\cygwin\bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.6.0/bin/client;C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.6.0/bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.6.0/lib/i386;C:\Program Files\WinRAR;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\cygwin\bin\;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX00.502\eclipse]
Path Environment variable has the following
C:\cygwin\bin\
BASH
You should install make package in cygwin. To do this execute cygwin setup.exe and when the window of packages opened, search make and install it. This is gonna solve your problem i think
You're missing make which is used for processing Makefiles to build programs.
Also to me it seems that this is more related to superuser.com, here is a similar question.
I'm running windows XP.
I have been following this tutorial and so downloading mingw-get-inst here.
I've done this a couple times and the last time I checked boes to install EVERYTHING including, but not limited to, gcc, g++, MSYS and the MinGW Compiling Suite. I told it to make a program menu shortcut, too.
I believe I have correctly added MinGW/bin to the Environment Settings' Path.
So I have the shortcut to the MSYS shell now. It goes to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat, but the whole msys directory does not exist!
There are tons of "packages" have been downloaded as far as I can tell ("mingw-get show" brings up a lot!), but it doesn't seem like any of it installed correctly.
Also, should I be able to use commands like "g++ foo.cpp -o foo.exe" from cmd.exe or only from the MSYS shell? Because I was unable to use cmd.exe.
Please help!
The MSYS and MinGW installation procedure is a nightmare, and has got worse over the years. If you just want the compiler suite (no UNIX tools like sed, grep), then I suggest you go to Twilight Dragon Media and download GCC from there. If you also want all the tools, including the Bash shell, the easiest way I've found to get them is to install Git for Windows (which you may want anyway), which includes them all. And if you want a C++ IDE that works well with GCC, take a look at Code::Blocks.
What is the result of running, at a cmd.exe prompt, the command echo %Path%? It should (given what you wrote about your system) include “C:\MinGW\bin”—does it?
What is the result of running dir C:\MinGW?
Note that mingw-get show shows details of available packages—those mingw-get knows how to download and install. The installer is a bit primitive, but has gotten better over the last year or so.
If you issue the command $ echo $PATH, you'll notice it contains /mingw/bin But the /mingw directory is unavailable. To mount it, edit the MSYS fstab, adding a line like C:\MinGW /mingw For details, see the MingW Getting Started guide, more specifically section "After Installing You Should..."
You only need to add MinGW/bin to the Windows' Environment Settings' Path if you plan to use MingW's executables outside of MSYS.
I'm using GCC on Windows 7 (using the TDM's build). I installed MSYS to be able to execute Make and compile using makefiles. However, it is tedious to every time start up the MSYS Bash shell, navigate to the directory of the project and run make.
What I want is to automate this process. I prefer to have a batch file in Windows, or something similar, from which I then invoke the MSYS Bash shell. It should navigate to the directory the batch file resides in and call make.
Is this possible? Can I send commands to MSYS Bash from cmd (like navigation/invoking make)? Or can I let the MSYS Bash run a "Bash script", which sets the commands to be executed much like batch scripts?
PS: This is something similar to Stack Overflow question Executing MSYS from cmd.exe with arguments.
Not an MSYS expert, but does something like this work for you:
rem Call this something like compile-project.bat
c:
cd \src\project
bash -c "make"
You don't have to use bash to execute make, or any of the other MSYS programs. If you put the MSYS bin directory on your path, you can execute them from a Windows command shell. Alternatively, the bash shell has an enormously powerful scripting language built in. But I'm not clear if that's what you are asking about - you should clarify your question with an actual example of what you want to do, spelling out the steps you want automated.
My own setup is to have a Windows Explorer context menu called "Bash here" which opens a bash shell in the directory I select. This is done via the following registry entries:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\mybash]
#="Bash Here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\mybash\command]
#="cmd /c c:\\bash.cmd %1"
And the following bash.cmd file in c::
#echo off
title bash
cd %1%
bash
Note that the MSYS bin directory is on my path. And of course, any registry hacking is at your own risk.
Just add executables to your Windows PATH:
C:\msys64\mingw64\bin
C:\msys64\usr\bin
Keep in mind, this adds a lot of executables to your path which might conflict with other applications. The ..\usr\bin directory contains all installed MSYS2 packages. There is a lot of unnecessary stuff. ..mingw64\bin directory has a smaller list.
Source
On my MSYS-1.0.11 with the MSYS developers packages, I can call a bash script (CurrentScript.sh) with a cmd/bat file in the current folder with this command:
R:\MinGW\MSYS-1.0.11\bin\sh "%cd%\CurrentScript.sh"
I have installed Eclipse and CDT (to use C/C++ in eclipse CDT is needed), as well as installing Cygwin so that I can compile my files.
In environment variables I've set Path to include the following: "C:\cygwin\bin;"
g++, make and GDC are all installed via Cygwin. I made sure of this by searching for them in the bin folder - they're all there.
If I enter "make" into the windows command prompt, this appears:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
If I enter "g++" or "gdc" into the windows command prompt, this appears (or similar):
'g++' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
So, in other words make is working but the rest isn't..but they're in the same bin folder! Has got me completely confused.
If I attempt to open Cygwin Bash Shell, g++, make and GDC all work there.
However, I need it to work in the command prompt so that Eclipse is able to compile the programs I write in the IDE.
If you know why this is happening, please let me know.
I haven't used cygwin much, but my understanding is you have to use it from the cygwin bash shell.
if you need g++, make, etc, use mingw, with it, g++ works from the normal windows command line.
Here is what happened to me and how I fixed it.
My C:\cygwin\bin\g++.exe is a shortcut pointing to C:\etc\alternatives\g++.exe, which points back to C:\cygwin\bin\g++-3.exe.
Replacing g++ with g++-3 worked for me.
In C:\cygwin\bin see whether g++.exe is there. If not, the installation wasn't done properly and you may need to install again. That's what was my problem and it's resolved :)
Adding the cygwin paths to the Path variable worked for me (windows 8.1 64 bit):
Go to system properties and select advanced system properties
Go to environment variables and select Path in system variables, click edit
Add the Cygwin paths...
for 32 bit:
C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\bin
for 64 bit:
C:\Cygwin64\bin;C:\Cygwin64\usr\bin
In the CMD window, try typing bash to start a bash shell in that window. If that doesn't work, then the cygwin bin directory is not on your path.
If it did work, enter type g++ and type make to see the paths that are being used for these commands. I'm pretty sure your problem is with your PATH variable.
You could install a Windows version of which to get some help in figuring out exactly which executables are being run.
Perhaps it's picking up 'make' from somewhere completely different, and your addition to %PATH% is not working.
Also verify it by typing echo %path% in the same command prompt window as you're seeing the problem in, just to make sure.