Re: Unable to execute c++ .exe file from php - Resolved

Thanks all for taking the time to help me out. I finally got the problem resolved. It appears that PHP was trying to use cygwin1.dll and could not find it. I am not sure why; I didn't think I even need cygwin to run php w/ Apache. Once I put a copy of cygwin1.dll in my system32 directory, my c++ .exe file started running. Hope this helps someone else. If someone knows why PHP needs any cygwin dlls, I would be interested in knowing the reason. "Ladan Pickering" <ladan_pickering@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20021109025418.61843.qmail@web11708.mail.yahoo.com... > Thanks Ernest for your suggestion. > I tried you idea with forward and backward slashes and > nothing seem > to change. I still see the return_var of 128. PHP is > trying to tell me what > the problem was, but I am unable to find what 128 > means. Any idea as > where the the "return_var" for the "system" and "exec" > commands are defined? > > Thanks > > --- Ernest E Vogelsinger <ernest@vogelsinger.at> > wrote: > > At 00:00 09.11.2002, Ladan Pickering said: > > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > >When I look at the program (hello.exe) under > > cygwin. > > >I see that the "x" bit is set for all. As far as I > > can > > >tell anyone is permitted to execute this program. > > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > > > Make your command like this > > > > c:/abc/hello.exe 2>&1 > > > > to see if some error is given... might be a problem > > with environment space? > > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2