how to call c programm from perl scripts

akaash · 03-17-2004, 04:34 AM

hello friends,

i askd all of u that

how can c program is called from perl scripts?????

akaash

UltimaGuy · 03-17-2004, 05:53 AM

You have to make the program executable by compiling it, and then you can just give the path and program name in the script to execute it

For example, compile it as test by doing this
gcc myfile.c -o test

Now, the shell script should be like this :
/[path to test]/test

And you're done

akaash · 03-17-2004, 11:14 PM

i want to call c prog from perl scripts not from shell scripts on linux machine

UltimaGuy · 03-17-2004, 11:43 PM

Oops, sorry. I think you can use the system call to do this, but I may be wrong.

prisoner · 03-18-2004, 07:41 PM

Ultima guy is right. I do this a lot:

system('./mycfile.whatever');

There may be other ways. This always works for me though.