how to execute a program?

[heyyo]

I found a function in Win32 API: CreateProcess(). It does the thing what I want. But I wonder is there any other way to do this (just opening a program with command line arguments). Not with <windows.h>. ??

[Bazzy]

with system you can call any command.
- See http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/11153/ to know why you shouldn't use it -

[heyyo]

Thanks for both.

[Disch]

iirc you can also use ShellExecute to launch another program. But it's been forever since I've looked at that function.

[heyyo]

But ShellExecute is a win32 program and does more then launching programs. It can open files with associated program. I understand from MSDN... didn't use yet.

[Disch]

oh whoops. I didn't see that you said you didn't want to use windows.h.

My mistake!

[george135]

"Not with <windows.h>. "
has no sense under Windows.
There are a dozen of methods to launch exe, which call at end Native Win32 apis (Nt*)