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    Default Starting a second executable using system( )

    I am on RHEL6 Linux QT4.8 QtCreator 2.8.1. My system call is as follows:

    system ( "/home/mydir/build-FlashRad-Desktop-Debug/FlashRad ");

    FlashRad is the executable

    From a command line When I cd into /home/mydir/build-FlashRad-Desktop-Debug and type ./FlashRad it runs the app.

    But from the calling app I get the error that the director/file does not exist.

    Is my system syntax wrong? Thanks for any help

    emp1953

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    Default Re: Starting a second executable using system( )

    What happens when you do from the command line : /home/mydir/build-FlashRad-Desktop-Debug/FlashRad without cd ?

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    Default Re: Starting a second executable using system( )

    Quote Originally Posted by Lesiok View Post
    What happens when you do from the command line : /home/mydir/build-FlashRad-Desktop-Debug/FlashRad without cd ?
    starting out in my home directory it runs the app without errors. I can cd to any directory and type in /home/mydir/build-FlashRad-Desktop-Debug/FlashRad and again
    it runs the app without errors.

    I even created a script file that cd's to the correct directory then tries to run with ./FlashRad

    The error now says that my script cannot be found.
    But its there and I can executed it from the command line. All permissions are wide open 777


    Added after 6 minutes:


    Ok, I got it to work but I don't know why. I built the FlashRad project from the command line so that the project executable was placed in the FlashRad project directory. When building/running from qtCreator it puts the executable in the build-FlashRad..... directory. If I run from the executable in the project directory all works as expected and the app in the system call starts up, but if I run from the build directory it does not work as expected.
    Last edited by emp1953; 23rd March 2020 at 18:27.

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