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Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable

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"arkkimede" <arkkimede@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi!
> I'm a c programmer that usually produce console application.
> To improve the look of my software, I'm studying Visual Basic.
> The idea is implementing a Graphical User Interface with VB, this produces 
> an input file and execute the cygwin code by mean the instruction
> System.Diagnostic.Process.Start("nome_of_executable.exe")
>
> I joint also that in the directory where is the executable there are all 
> the
> dll required by the cygwin executable to run. In fact, on windows, pushing 
> on the executable it run correctly, but in VB it does not run.
>
> Could you help me?
> TIA

For future reference, this group usually deals with VB6 and lower, and most 
of the people who hang in here use it. For VB.Net, use this forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/visualbasic/

The two languages have major differences and there is no reliable automated 
way to upgrade between the two. Upgrading often requires a rewrite. VB6 is 
the last version that is not reliant on the .Net runtime. VB6 runtime is 
included in Windows 2000 through Windows 8, so pretty much you need just to 
distribute the EXE, however it was released on 1998, so perhaps you may want 
to stick with C.

Also, VB.Net/C# require the .Net library, which can take a long time to 
update as it's several hundred MB. This may or may not be important to you. 
Why not stick with C and use Qt or GTK+? Both are multiplatform and have 
small runtime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B

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Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable arkkimede <arkkimede@gmail.com> - 2012-07-18 01:12 -0700
  Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2012-07-18 10:09 +0100
  Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable arkkimede <arkkimede@gmail.com> - 2012-07-18 02:21 -0700
  Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable arkkimede <arkkimede@gmail.com> - 2012-07-18 03:06 -0700
    Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2012-07-18 11:28 +0100
  Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-07-18 06:33 -0400
    Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable arkkimede <arkkimede@gmail.com> - 2012-07-18 04:45 -0700
      Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-07-18 10:56 -0400
        Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-07-18 19:45 +0000
          Re: Call in Visual Basic a Cygwin executable arkkimede <arkkimede@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 03:09 -0700

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