- Build a fully-qualified path name to the installed executable on the system and include that in the system() call...if the executable is properly installed so it knows where it's needed stuff is -- copying just an executable to another directory may not get everything it needs, Or
- Build a .bat file that contains commands to set whatever environment the application needs to run -- then call the .bat file from MATLAB instead.
How to properly call system on Windows
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I'm trying to make a project cross platform, it already works on Linux systems.
The main problem I am having is that I need to call an external executable qafm / qafm.exe
On Linux I just put the executable on in ~/bin, which is on the PATH for my user, so running
system('qafm --rest-of-arguments')
works nicely.
For instance
system('qafm')
returns 1 and prints usage to the command window, as I'd expect.
However on windows I am having trouble.
First, I don't know how to set a user specific path, so I just copied the executable qafm.exe to a MATLAB folder.
This isn't some broken rpath or anything though, if I run .\qafm or .\qafm.exe in powershell or cmd in that folder I get the expected usage output.
However, if I run in the same folder in MATLAB R2019b
system('.\qafm')
it returns -1.0737e+09 (Not a valid error code for the program I promise) and prints nothing to the command window.
Any idea what the problem might be?
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dpb
2021-7-24
That'll work but it seems to me a better way would still be to have the executable on its own rather than adding into a ML directory...but it's your code so your choice on that organization structure.
May as well put it in as an Answer -- that'll indicate to others that watch but may not be around today that there is a solution so that if they're busy don't spend time on Q? that do have at least one acceptable Answer.
As for the other old paths; I grok that; I just would have hoped the older releases would have been cleaned up with the new install -- although I suppose they're needed if one wanted to be able to run older releases as well. I haven't figured out how to keep the license active on them all so while the older installs are still on the system, they're not activated. I suppose if I were to uninstall them, then it would clean things up. But, who knows--I might at some point in the future need one of the earlier releases and have to go figure out the license thingie then... :) As long as "out of sight, out of mind!" I don't guess it hurts too much unless the path reaches whatever its internal length limit is...
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Kylie MacFarquharson
2021-7-24
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2021-7-24
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dpb
2021-7-24
That's what I was suggesting, yes...it's too much grief in CMD. TCC (the JPSoft CMD replacement) would make it trivial exercise, however... :)
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