With OS Process you can run scripts. That should work identical on Mac and Unix systems; probably also Windows, but I haven't tried. With FFI and Alien you can call C libraries. I have not much experience with those, but normally it should be possible to use them on all platforms. Lukas On 12 December 2010 17:31, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys
I was wondering if it is true that executing a file from within Pharo is platform dependent. I don't actually need to execute a file; it's more a theoretical question and I have no idea what the mechanisms are that would be used. To give you a clearer picture: Imagine you have C, sh, and perl files. What I'm thinking about is that I would have some data in the image that I would want to process with the code in one of those files. I would then wait for the result and process the result in the image.
So my questions are: is there a platform independent way to execute C, sh or perl files from Pharo? Does the VM handle the platform dependencies? Are there any other issues with the idea I described?
Don't go out of your way to find answers, please. But I'd be happy to hear your thoughts.
Cheers, Max
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