In the course of executing your program, you need to start another one and wait for its completion. I do

WinExec("C:\\blabla.exe",1)

but it does not wait. How to?

    3 answers 3

    Better yet, use the process creation function.

      TCHAR szPath[] = _T("C:\\blabla.exe"); STARTUPINFO si; memset(&si, 0, sizeof(si)); si.cb = sizeof(si); PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; memset(&pi, 0, sizeof(pi)); if ( CreateProcess(NULL, szPath, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi) ) { // программа запущена, ждем её завершения DWORD dwWait = WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE); if ( dwWait == WAIT_OBJECT_0 ) { // программа благополучно завершилась } else if ( dwWait == WAIT_ABANDONED ) { // программа была насильно "прибита" } // else ну и может быть другие варианты ожидания CloseHandle(pi.hProcess); CloseHandle(pi.hThread); }

      Use a couple of calls: ShellExecuteEx(<SHELLEXECUTEINFO>) to start the process, and WaitForSingleObject(<SHELLEXECUTEINFO>.hProcess, INFINITE) to wait for it to complete. Example (taken from here and slightly modified):

       SHELLEXECUTEINFO ExecInfo; memset(&ExecInfo, 0, sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO)); ExecInfo.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO); ExecInfo.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS; ExecInfo.lpVerb = _T("open"); ExecInfo.lpFile = L"\\windows\\clog.lnk"; //Запуск процесса if ( ShellExecuteEx(&ExecInfo) ) { //Ожидание завершения процесса WaitForSingleObject(ExecInfo.hProcess, INFINITE); } ...

        Simply

         system("код команды");

        update (see my comment to the answer (?) @zalipuha below)

        I did the sh script (just faster and more visually), but for using system() it doesn't matter.

         avp@avp-ubu1:~/hashcode$ cat tttx.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #define SCRIPT "bla bla.exe" int main (int ac, char *av[]) { FILE *prog = fopen (SCRIPT, "w"); fprintf (prog, "#!/bin/sh\necho А вот и запустили меня ... \\'$0\\'"); fclose(prog); chmod(SCRIPT, 0755); char cmd[1024]; sprintf (cmd, "'./%s'", SCRIPT); system(cmd); return puts("End") == EOF; } avp@avp-ubu1:~/hashcode$ gcc tttx.c avp@avp-ubu1:~/hashcode$ ./a.out А вот и запустили меня ... './bla bla.exe' End avp@avp-ubu1:~/hashcode$

        Something like that. In Windows did not check (to study the subtleties cmd reluctance).

        • unfortunately, if the name of the program were “bla bla.exe”, then it would not be executed, since the system transmits a const char that cannot contain a space. Tell me, am I right? It was just in my case that way. I would be very happy if it were not so. UPD @avp, all the same, I came to the solution through ShellExecute , since it should work out, but the file name parameter there also accepts the data type const char , but unlike the system not so capricious and without abuse it accepts string via .c_str() . - zalipuha
        • @zalipuha, in something you are right (there may be problems with spaces). But only on the fact that cons char * cannot contain a space. There can be any spaces. - The problem is that system () executes the command by running the shell, passing it its argument. The shell will use the command name to display the characters before the first space in this line and (if you write head-on), the shell will curse that there is no bla command. Primerchik, how to deal with this in a couple of minutes I will give my answer to the update . - avp