Re: Shell Access with C++ Recommendations
On Nov 16, 1:16 am, xander.grespe...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for unix "shell access"
services that provide a c++ compiler (gcc or intel). free
would be preferable. basically i'm looking at testing out
some networking related code over the internet.
I'm not sure what you mean by "shell access" services. C++ has
a standard function, system() which allows invoking another
program. This program can be a shell, and on Unix based
machines, it will be a shell---Posix requires that system()
invoke a shell to interpret the command, but you'll have to see
your compiler documentation to find out what it actually does.
The only real problem is that the shell commands aren't really
portable. Still, Unix look-alikes abound, and there are a
number of Unix-like tool kits for Windows, so if you use a set
of Unix commands (not from the latest Posix standard, but
something a bit older), you can obtain a limited amount of
portability, sufficient for many uses.
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